Re: [DRBD-user] Best Practice for DRBD+LVM+KVM

2013-06-20 Thread Paul O'Rorke
Simon, thank you so much. I saw a reference to that on the pages about xen and should have realized it would apply to any virtual environment. Doh! Writing to /dev/drbd/by-res/r1 did it and I now have my first vm ticking along nicely through DRBD and I'm a very happy camper. Thanks again

Re: [DRBD-user] Best Practice for DRBD+LVM+KVM

2013-06-20 Thread Simon Ironside
On 20/06/13 17:51, Paul O'Rorke wrote: Does anyone have any thoughts on why my data doesn't seem to be replicating or perhaps point me in the right direction for how to dig a little deeper. My limited understanding is that DRBD should be between my host and the LVM volume but perhaps it's writi

[DRBD-user] Best Practice for DRBD+LVM+KVM

2013-06-20 Thread Paul O'Rorke
Hi all, I'm trying to set up DRBD to use with KVM virtual machines so that I can have physical redundancy on my services. I followed this to use LVM volumes as my DRBD backing device: http://www.drbd.org/users-guide-8.3/s-lvm-lv-as-drbd-backing-dev.html and then did this http://www.drbd.org