We're looking at asking our contract prime to provide us with some sandbox resources that we can use to PoC all of the options we have available to us.
I wasn't looking at OCFS2 because I had heard it required a license from Oracle. That appears to not be the case, though so it is now on the table. We're waiting for our vendor to schedule a call with Red Hat with us so we can discuss the options. -Mathew "When you do things right, people won't be sure you've done anything at all." - God; Futurama On Wed, Mar 28, 2012 at 3:49 PM, Brad Bendily <[email protected]> wrote: > I've been using DRBD with OCFS2 on top. > It's been very stable. No file system corruption. > We have had some issues with DRBD rebooting the nodes, but I think > those were more related to network problems that > caused each node to think the other was offline. > > Overall it's been pretty stable. > bb > > On Tue, Mar 27, 2012 at 7:57 PM, Mathew Snyder <[email protected]> > wrote: >> On Tue, Mar 27, 2012 at 7:52 PM, Mathew Snyder <[email protected]> >> wrote: >>> On Tue, Mar 27, 2012 at 7:00 PM, Robert Hajime Lanning >>> <[email protected]> wrote: >>>> On 03/27/12 15:17, Miles Fidelman wrote: >>>>> Mathew Snyder wrote: >>>>>> Has anyone ever implemented this in a virtual environment? We have >>>>>> numerous customers on a "platform" we've developed in a shared cloud >>>>>> (ugh...I hate that word) environment. We'd be looking to provide a >>>>>> large, central, clustered storage repository for some if not all of >>>>>> them so that they can implement HA. >>>>>> >>>>>> While I know it to be false, we've been told that adding physical >>>>>> SAN/NAS storage to our environment is impossible. Really, I just think >>>>>> it's a matter of the prime on the contract not wanting to deal with it >>>>>> as it does not fall in line with their sales model for shared >>>>>> resources. >>>>> As I understand GFS2 (the main thing in Red Hat Resilient Storage), most >>>>> of its features require a SAN. >>>> >>>> or the simulation there of. (ie. a shared block device) >>>> This could be a VM exporting an iSCSI target. (Which is what things >>>> like Left-Hand SAN solutions from HP does. >>>> >>>> -- >>>> Mr. Flibble >>>> King of the Potato People >>>> >>> >>> That's the impression I got from the limited documentation I've been >>> able to find which is specifically about RS. I'm still digging into it >>> but will also look into gluster to see what it can do for us. >>> >>> -Mathew >>> >>> "When you do things right, people won't be sure you've done anything >>> at all." - God; Futurama >> >> Among other links I've found documenting using GFS2 on a non-SAN VM: >> >> http://wiki.sysconfig.org.uk/display/howto/Clustered+Filesystem+with+DRBD+and+GFS2+on+CentOS+5.4 >> >> -Mathew >> >> "When you do things right, people won't be sure you've done anything >> at all." - God; Futurama >> _______________________________________________ >> Tech mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tech >> This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators >> http://lopsa.org/ _______________________________________________ Tech mailing list [email protected] https://lists.lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tech This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators http://lopsa.org/
