Re: [CentOS] Xen, GFS, GNBD and DRBD?

2008-01-03 Thread Marc Grimme
Hi Tom, On Wednesday 02 January 2008 23:44:19 Tom Lanyon wrote: Hi all, We're looking at deploying a small Xen cluster to run some of our smaller applications. I'm curious to get the lists opinions and advice on what's needed. I'm not the biggest fan of DRBD with Xen and everything but it's

Re: [CentOS] Xen, GFS, GNBD and DRBD?

2008-01-03 Thread Ross S. W. Walker
: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: CentOS mailing list centos@centos.org Sent: Wed Jan 02 20:15:58 2008 Subject: Re: [CentOS] Xen, GFS, GNBD and DRBD? On 03/01/2008, at 9:55 AM, Ross S. W. Walker wrote: Take a look at iSCSI for the storage servers. iSCSI Enterprise Target is what I use

[CentOS] Xen, GFS, GNBD and DRBD?

2008-01-02 Thread Tom Lanyon
Hi all, We're looking at deploying a small Xen cluster to run some of our smaller applications. I'm curious to get the lists opinions and advice on what's needed. The plan at the moment is to have two or three servers running as the Xen dom0 hosts and two servers running as storage

Re: [CentOS] Xen, GFS, GNBD and DRBD?

2008-01-02 Thread Tom Lanyon
On 03/01/2008, at 9:55 AM, Ross S. W. Walker wrote: Take a look at iSCSI for the storage servers. iSCSI Enterprise Target is what I use here and it works well for us. You don't really need shared filesystems if you are doing direct block io to LVs or raw partitions as the Xen migration

Re: [CentOS] Xen, GFS, GNBD and DRBD?

2008-01-02 Thread Ken Price
Tom, Check out the following URL. It should answer most [all?] of your questions about creating an iSCSI target using two CentOS boxes, Heartbeat, and DRBD. http://www.pcpro.co.uk/realworld/82284/san-on-the-cheap.html Hope this helps. -Ken Ross, I can use DRBD to mirror data between