On Jul 26, 3:50 am, "James Youngman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, Jul 25, 2008 at 10:32 PM, Bob <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > however - you can run drbd in a primary/primary config - this > > sounds like what I want. But it sounds like I need a clustering files > > system to do this like GFS. After countless hours researching this, > > I'm still not sure how to do it - do I need GFS? OCFS? NBD? > > There is a presenation on Ganeti that might help you figure this out. > Seehttp://ganeti.googlecode.com/files/Ganeti-FISL-2008.pdf > > I believe Ganeti is in the Debian repository. It's my understanding > though that Ganeti works best with three machines, because that way > you still have dual-homed data even if one node already failed. > > James. >
James - TX so much for your reply. I had done some research into ganeti, but hadn't see that presentation - I found it very helpful. I have posted some questions to a ganeti group, because first & foremost, I don't want to move my VM's out of vmware. So I would need vmware to run on the 'ganeti system', and don't know if that can happen, or if it makes sense to do it that way... Also - as you've already indicated, ganeti seems to want a 3rd pc to manage everything. In the future, this may start to make more sense, but for now, I really want a 2-pc solution. For me, it's not necessary to have a dual-homed system after 1 failure. It's simply enough to have 1 fully running system. I'd like the VM's to continue without reboot if 1 fails, but if the 2nd system should fail during the downtime of the 1st failed system, I can live with that. (for now ;-) Would you happen to be able to address any of those questions? TIA - Bob -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
