[CentOS] openfiler (was: using CentOS as an iSCSI server?)
Benjamin Franz
jfranz at freerun.com
Wed Oct 21 00:22:31 UTC 2009
John R Pierce wrote:
> nate wrote:
>
>> Network RAID – only available from HP
>>
>>
>
> Fantasy ideas (eg, I've only thought of this and never tried it). YMMV,
> caveat emptor, objects in mirror may be closer than they appear, etc etc.
>
> 1) two ISCSI servers, each with identical storage. each offers the same
> sized iscsi target to the host. the host uses mdraid 1 to mirror these.
>
I've done it experimentally. It worked. Obviously you can't share a
raid volume with multiple client hosts.
> 2) two ISCSI servers, each with identical storage, configured as
> active-standby cluster, using conventional cluster management software.
> active 'master' replicates block storage to 'slave' using DRBD.
>
>
I've done this too (active-active using RH Cluster and GFS). I gave up
finally because I just couldn't get reliable multipathing. The paths
would keep locking up in weird ways, fail to come up (randomly), and all
kinds of hate and discontent. :(
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Benjamin Franz
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