Hi All:

We're new to pacemaker (just got some great help from this forum getting it 
working with LVM as backing device), and would like to explore the Physical 
Volume option. We're trying configure on top of an existing Encrypted RAID1 set 
up and employ LVM.

NOTE:  our goal is to run many virtual servers, each in its own logical volume 
and it looks like putting LVM on top of the DRBD would allow us to add logical 
volumes "on the fly", but also have a "simpler" setup with one drbd device for 
all the logical volumes and one related pacemaker config.  Hence, exploring 
DRBD as a physical volume.

Q:  For pacemaker to work, how do we do the DRBD disk/device mapping in the 
drbd.conf file?  And should we set things up and encrypt last, or can we apply 
DRBD and Pacemaker to an existing Encypted RAID1 setup?

The examples we've seen show mapping between the drbd device and a physical 
disk (e.g., sdb) in the drbd.conf, and then  "pvcreate /dev/drbdnum" and 
creating a volume group and logical volume on the drbd device.

So for this type of set up, drbd.conf might look like:

device    /dev/drbd1;    
disk      /dev/sdb;
address xx.xx.xx.xx:7789;
    meta-disk internal;

In our case, because we have an existing RAID1 (md2) and it's encrypted 
(md2_crypt or /dev/dm-7 ...  we're unsure which partition actually has the 
data), any thoughts on how to do the DRBD mapping?  E.g., 

device /dev/drbd1 minor 1;
disk /dev/???????;
address xx.xx.xx.xx:7789; 
meta-disk internal;

I.e., what goes in the "disk /dev/?????;"?  Would it be "disk /dev/md2_crypt;"?

And can we do our setup on an existing Encrypted RAID1 setup (if we do pvcreate 
on drbd1, we get errors)?

Thanks!

Ted
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