Posts tagged: HA

Remus-fu with DRBD, GFS2 & Redhat Cluster on Debian

Refer to http://www.loonjuice.com/2010/06/06/remus-fu to get Debian & Xen with Remus installed, configured & running. Then, change the disk of the VM to use an image location being on a GFS2 mounted, DRBD distributed, clustered file system! (eg used below is /usr/gfs0 ) Current Xen 4.1-unstable includes Remus & uses/patches the 2.6.31.13 Linux kernel. Build & [...]

Sunday June 13th, 2010 in , , , , , , | 1 Comment »

Found DRBD to be a breeze to d…

Found DRBD to be a breeze to deploy to my latest Xen 4.1 + Linux 2.6.31 HA Cluster. Performance is “outstanding”. drbd.org #ftw #opensource Download from drbd.org the 8.3.7 via http://oss.linbit.com/drbd/8.3/drbd-8.3.7.tar.gz Follow their Doco at http://www.drbd.org/docs/about/, which results in the following commands: tar xzvf drbd-8.3.7.tar.gz ls -altr /lib/modules/`uname -r`/build cd drbd-8.3.7 ./configure –with-km make KDIR=/lib/modules/`uname [...]

Tuesday May 4th, 2010 in , , , , , , | No Comments »