Re: [DRBD-user] DRBD 8.0 life cycle

2021-09-22 Thread Roland Kammerer
On Tue, Sep 21, 2021 at 07:09:49AM -0700, Paul D. O'Rorke wrote: > I have to pass on my thanks and respect. > > I have been running a 3 node "Stacked" replication set on 8.9.6 for some > years now.  This weekend I finally bit the bullet and installed 9.11.0 from > the Ubuntu 20.04 LTS  repos on

Re: [DRBD-user] DRBD 8.0 life cycle

2021-09-21 Thread Paul D. O'Rorke
I have to pass on my thanks and respect. I have been running a 3 node "Stacked" replication set on 8.9.6 for some years now.  This weekend I finally bit the bullet and installed 9.11.0 from the Ubuntu 20.04 LTS  repos on new hardware and I am blown away at how simple and efficient the move

Re: [DRBD-user] DRBD 8.0 life cycle

2021-08-26 Thread Paul D. O'Rorke
Thanks Lars, DRBD 9 does everything DRBD 8 does. Some things it does better. And it can do some things you may not (yet) need. I went ahead and did the reading...  ;-)   I will move to DRBD9. You can use DRBD 9 the same way you used DRBD 8, if you want to. (some config options have been

Re: [DRBD-user] DRBD 8.0 life cycle

2021-08-26 Thread Michael Hierweck
Hi Lars, On 26.08.21 15:03, Lars Ellenberg wrote: As we put on our web page at https://linbit.com/solutions-rfq/ DRBD 8 < 8.4 is end of life. DRBD 8.4 has left "active maintenance" years ago, but needs to be supported while existing customers pay for existing deployments. The "relevant"

Re: [DRBD-user] DRBD 8.0 life cycle

2021-08-26 Thread Lars Ellenberg
On Tue, Aug 03, 2021 at 03:34:58PM -0700, Paul D. O'Rorke wrote: > Hi all, > > I have been running a DRDB-8 simple 3 node disaster recovery set up of > libvirt VMs for a number of years and have been very happy with it.   Our > needs are simple, 2 servers on Protocol C, each running a handful of