looks interesting. thanks for the article. ;)
ming
On Thu, 2006-01-26 at 09:29 +0000, Simon Brock wrote:
> I recently wrote an article for the UK magazine PC Pro about iSCSI.
> I used IET but I set up two servers using DRBD to implement
> replication and heartbeat to implement failover. You can see the
> article here:
>
> http://www.pcpro.co.uk/realworld/82284/san-on-the-cheap.html
>
> When I started writing the article, I just wanted to see if this
> would work (and it did) as I thought it might be interesting. I had
> considered the idea of using mirroring in the initiator. However, I
> discovered while writing the article that the Microsoft iSCSI
> initiator does not support dynamic disks and therefore mirroring
> might fail on Windows. (My column is about open source so I did not
> really investigate this as far as I could but this was mentioned in
> the MS release notes).
>
> As a (fairly unscientific) test, we set a Windows machine copying to
> an iSCSI volume in this scenario and implemented various forms of
> soft failover (stopping the heartbeat) and hard failover (we pulled
> the power). In all the cases, we tried DRBD worked and we lost no
> data. We did have both machines in the iSCSI target connected
> together by a crossover gigabit ethernet cable and the machines were
> not heavily loaded but it did work.
>
> Regards,
> Simon.
>
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