by Dean | Jun 26, 2014 | Crazy Idea, General IT, IT, Linux, SAAS (Software as a Service), Tutorial, Virtualisation
In the final part to this series of posts, I would like to outline a few of the issues that I encountered when setting up DRBD. Split Brain With a two node cluster, this is probably the biggest issue that arises. Split brain is when the communication between the hosts...
by Dean | Jun 12, 2014 | Crazy Idea, Disaster Recovery, General IT, IT, Linux, Misc, SAAS (Software as a Service), Virtualisation
Now that we have two machines that are identical (With the exception of IP and host name.) The next step is to download, install and configure DRBD. To achieve this I used a few posts and combined them into the setup that I wanted to setup. Some of the posts include...
by Dean | Jun 4, 2014 | Crazy Idea, Disaster Recovery, General IT, IT, Linux, Misc, SAAS (Software as a Service), Tutorial, Virtualisation
At first I thought this was going to be a fairly easy and straight forward setup. I figured it would be install FreeNAS or Ubuntu and bam we will be away. What has ended up happening was a configuration of DRBD, Heatbeat and other HA utilities to get it up and running...