DRBD is a Distributed Replicated Block Device. Developed by LinBit it is now part of the standard-linux-kernel. Regard it as RAID 1 across an IP-network using any type of block device. Normally only the "primary" side can write.
Questions tagged [drbd]
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DRBD as DR: syncing datastores of 2 ESXI hosts, vmdk consistency?
does anyone have experience with using DRBD (protocol C) to sync parts of the datastores of 2 esxi hosts for disaster recovery of selected guests?
I have 2-3 guests that should be able to recover from hardware failure of the host in as little time…
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mount.ocfs2: Transport endpoint is not connected while mounting...?
I have replaced a dead node that was running in dual-primary mode with OCFS2. All the steps work:
/proc/drbd
version: 8.3.13 (api:88/proto:86-96)
GIT-hash: 83ca112086600faacab2f157bc5a9324f7bd7f77 build by mockbuild@builder10.centos.org, 2012-05-07…
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Heartbeat/DRBD failover didn't work as expected. How do I make the failover more robust?
I had a scenario where a DRBD-heartbeat set up had a failed node but did not failover. What happened was the primary node had locked up, but didn't go down directly (it was inaccessible via ssh or with the nfs mount, but it could be pinged). The…
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DRBD or similiar RAID over net on slow/limited networks
I am looking for ways to create some kind of file replication without losing too much performance on file operations. A real RAID is not an option due to non-technical constraints.
As far as I understand, DRBD tries to act like a real RAID1,…
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What to use for software-based shared file storage?
The situation: setting up a load balancer
Currently we have all of our servers (running CentOS Linux) in pairs in our data center: each server has a mirroring server. We don't employ any load balancing at the moment, so serverA gets all traffic and…
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Why does WinDRBD become Diskless/StandAlone (both node)
I have a question.
Currently, this OS is Windows Server 2019.
The volume configuration is Raid-5.
The two servers are connected by a heartbeat network
Both nodes were mirrored using WinDRBD. Both nodes have the same configuration.
I left unformatted…
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inding
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Sync Servers with DRBD
assume if I synchronized two servers and I used DRBD, and after I synced them I installed application on both, if I wanted to add a third server. is that possible? since I think I should create block device and use it in the installation and that is…
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I/O high on DRBD disk drbd10 on stacked site
We have 4 Redhat Boxes Dell PowerEdge R630 (say a,b,c,d) having the following OS/packages.
RedHat EL 6.5 MySql Enterprise 5.6 DRBD 8.4 Corosync 1.4.7
We have setup 4-way stacked drbd resources as below:
Cluster Cluster-1: servers a and b connected…
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Manu
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DRBD - no resources defined
I have some problems getting a drbd cluster running.
When I want to start creating my storage, i get the following error:
root@raspberrypi-ha1~# drbdadm create-md drbd1
no resources defined
But my resource is definitely defined in /etc/drbd.conf…
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Dual primary DRBD with LUKS encryption
Is it possible to create a LUKS encrypted filesystem that is accessible by both nodes of a dual primary DRBD system?
Here is what I tried to do:
Create two nodes and establish a partition on each with an ext3 filesystem.
Replicate the partition…
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DRBD + corosync + pacemaker - Servers won't connect after failover
I got 2 servers configured with drbd, corosync with pacemaker. It is all working fine, primary server gets secondary if it fails, and secondary gets primary.
But if the 1st server comes up again after the failover, drbd won't connect back again and…
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drbd service not startable / WFConnection
I recently migrated my drbd setup from Ubutnu to centos 7 and i get a wierd error:
i can load and unload the module normally, and the whole thing seems to work
#>modprobe drbd
#>lsmod | grep drbd
drbd 373504 2
...
i can now issue drbdadm…
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DRBD for Windows / Hyper V
DRBD is a protocol for mirroring the storage on one server with the storage on another. Essentially it gives you a highly available (HA) cluster of storage across two or more physical machines, without the need for an expensive SAN.
It seems this…
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DRBD LVM - backed vs. physical & LVM filter
We're experimenting with DRBD/pacemaker on top of an existing Debian 6 Encrypted RAID1 setup. We have one comparatively general and one comparatively specific question:
1) DRBD - backed vs. physical volume (general design option question)
We want…
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DRBD with MySQL
Question about using DRBD to provide HA for MySQL.
I need to be sure that my backup MySQL instance is always going to be in a functional state when the failover occurs. What happens, for example, if the primary dies part way through committing a…
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