Re: [Xen-users] question to DRBD users/experts

[Jeff Williams <jeffw@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 25/08/2010, at 7:32 AM, James Harper wrote:

A better setup though would be a SAN consisting of iSCSI on DRBD in
single primary mode (using HA to handle failover if the primary fails)
and all the hosts using iSCSI. I don't have enough hardware to make that
work though unfortunately.

I've had similar thoughts. You wouldn't need a SAN though would you? DRBD with a single primary and iSCSI target. Use HA to fail over the DRBD primary and iscsi target on failure. My only concern was how much extra load the iscsi would place on the Dom0s. Haven't got so far as testing this though.

Jeff

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