[COLUG] drbd ?

[Rob Funk]

Mike Warfe wrote:
> I've got it running on two Centos4 machines in a master/slave
> configuration. The cluster runs vmware server and I use heartbeat to do
> the automatic fail over between the two hosts. The hardest part of
> getting this to work was getting vmware to not choke when the fail over
> machine mounts the replicated partitions. The heartbeat service and
> drbd can be found in the Centos plus repo. I believe.

Possibly dumb questions from someone whose high-availability experience to 
date stops at RAID....

With drbd, why not do primary/primary rather than primary/secondary?

In general, why not (or: is it possible to) have both machines normally 
doing a share of the work, rather than one being idle until the other 
fails?

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