June 26, 2009
A new version of the DRBD User’s Guide is up at http://www.drbd.org/users-guide. As this version has some major additions to the previous release, I’ve decided to create a release
candidate this time, before declaring this an “official reference” — everyone’s feedback is requested and highly encouraged.
What’s new is Chapter 8, “Integrating DRBD with Pacemaker clusters“. It deals with the new drbd OCF resource agent we are about to release with 8.3.2, and how to use it in Pacemaker clusters using the CRM shell. It also has setup examples for MySQL, as does the legacy chapter on Heartbeat. Please grab the 8.3.2rc2 tarball if you are willing to help out testing this release candidate.
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Posted by Florian Haas
May 13, 2009
By popular demand, we are now offering an on-line incarnation of our DRBD Total training sessions, normally taught in a 4-day on-site course. The next such training commences on May 18 (next Monday), and we still have a few seats left — so if you’re interested, grab one while you still can!
What’s covered in this course?
Here is an overview of the course highlights:
- Introduction to High Availability Clustering & DRBD
- Setting up a DRBD resource and common failure scenarios
- Configuring and running the Heartbeat/Pacemaker cluster stack
- Highly available NFS, MySQL, and virtualization
- DRBD performance tuning and optimization
- DRBD integration with Red Hat Cluster Suite
- Recent and future DRBD development
Every course attendee gets a virtual cluster to play with and practice on. It doesn’t get much more hands-on than this. Read the rest of this entry »
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Posted by Florian Haas
May 6, 2009
I am doing a webinar, scheduled for 1200 UTC today, May 6, 2009. This 45-minute webinar will cover everything you need to get acquainted with DRBD Proxy, enabling you to
- Create fully redundant, replicated storage solutions across high-latency networks;
- Build metro area or wide area clusters at a fraction of the cost of competitor offerings;
- Leverage the full power of DRBD in split-site deployments!
Attending this webinar is completely free of charge, but attendance is limited to 100 participants who may join the event on a first-come, first-served basis.
Details on attending this webinar are available on our web site.
A recording of this webinar will be made available on May 20.
See you this afternoon!
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Posted by Florian Haas
March 24, 2009
Novell released SUSE Linux Enterprise 11 today. We at LINBIT have participated in the SLE 11 Beta program and are offering DRBD 8.3 support for SLES 11 effective immediately.
Even though SLE 11 High Availability Extension (which of course includes DRBD) appears to still be a few weeks out, you can start running DRBD on top of SLE 11 today. There’s a few pretty nifty applications for which you can utilize DRBD on SLE 11 — stay tuned for more!
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