Re: [Xen-users] Re: Re: Redundant server setup

[Per Andreas Buer <per.buer@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 12. mai. 2006, at 15:31, Matthew Wild wrote:

> But as far as I can see, DRBD only provides twin machine shared  
> storage. I
> have a few servers I want to use as dom0s and since they are  
> generally simple
> 1U boxes I want them as clean from local storage as possible. The  
> NAS box is
> bigger and generally better protected with redundant PSU, hardware  
> RAID with
> hotswap spares etc. If I could pair two machines like that and then  
> offer
> storage to the dom0s from that redundant pair that would be better.
Buy two servers, use DRBD between them and share the storage with  
gnbd. gnbd seems to be quite stable and easy to manage. Besides - it  
does not exhibit any of the strange issues people see with iSCSI when  
under load.
Per.

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