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I need to setup a new infrastructure which provides high available shared storage between debian servers.

Our current solution is a "clustered DRBD NFS solution". We have setup 2 virtual file servers and mirror the shared storage with drbd. We run NFS-Server (active/passive) on each fileserver. Other server mount the storage/shared folder via NFS. To control failover we use pacemaker/corosync.

Is this approach is still a good solution, or are there meanwhile better open source solutions e.g. with GlusterFS, etc?

markus
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Sure. You can buy SIOS Lifekeeper which is similar to DRBD (network RAID), but handles the application, VIPs, failover/failback and is cluster-aware. It's basically a polished commercial solution for what you currently have.

ewwhite
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  • I'm looking only for open source solutions – markus May 21 '14 at 16:36
  • @markus Why? You did initially ask for "better" recommendations. What is the problem or pain-point with your current solution? – ewwhite May 21 '14 at 17:09
  • We has some problems with drbd from time to time, so I'm just interested if there are other solutions which are easier to manage and more reliable. – markus May 21 '14 at 20:45