Posted on Tue 20 March 2012 in blog • Tagged with DRBD • 2 min read
Here’s a quick summary of my past and current relationship with the DRBD User’s Guide.
As you probably know, I created the original DRBD User’s Guide several years back, and I maintained it throughout my time at Linbit. When I left last year, it was originally mutually …
Posted on Mon 19 March 2012 in presentations • Tagged with DRBD, Flashcache, Pacemaker, Performance • 1 min read
At linux.conf.au 2012, Florian I this presentation on the integration of DRBD, Flashcache and Pacemaker in the High Availability and Distributed Storage miniconf.
In this 30-minute presentation, I explore the benefits of Flashcache for replicated storage. Flashcache, originally developed at Facebook, is a general purpose, block level cache …
Posted on Mon 19 March 2012 in presentations • Tagged with DRBD, KVM, libvirt, Pacemaker • 1 min read
Tim Serong and I explore the capabilities of KVM, iSCSI, DRBD and Pacemaker to create a fully open-source enterprise cloud.
Shot at linux.conf.au 2011 in Brisbane, this is me babbling, and Tim live-cartooning to the delight of the audience.
This article originally appeared on the hastexo …
Posted on Tue 06 March 2012 in hints-and-kinks • Tagged with DRBD • 3 min read
Whenever a DRBD setup runs into a situation where the replication
network is disconnected and fencing policy is set to dont-care
(default), there is the potential risk of a split-brain. Even with
resource level fencing or STONITH setup, there are corner cases that
will end up in a split-brain.
When …