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Old 07-01-2008, 05:34 AM   #1
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Shared Hard Disk as Common Space in Clustering??


I am running short of Shared Storage for Red Hat Clustering and all I need to do is I am having two Hard Disk of 100 GB each .I want it to be looked as common hard disk for the clustering setup.

Is it possible to setup?

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Old 07-01-2008, 10:09 AM   #2
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You could use a linux server to setup an iSCSI target or DRBD that exports the harddisks as shareable device.
 
Old 07-01-2008, 11:35 PM   #3
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Thanks Brian for the reply.
Can you elaborate what do you mean setting up iSCSI Target or DRBD?I am clueless about that.

Any docs which talks about that setup?Any hands-on papers or tutorial.
It would be great if you help me wiht this set up.

Thanks in advance
 
Old 07-15-2008, 03:25 AM   #4
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For iSCSI see [1], for DRBD see [2].

iSCSI Target is basically a server that resembles a SAN storage and exports it's block devices via ethernet. Also rather cheap hardware solutions are available. The iSCSI Target should not be part of the cluster and it is a bottleneck as well as an single point of failure. iSCSI is more scaleable than DRBD.

On the cluster nodes you will need to configure a iSCSI Initiator, which is a client to read the iSCSI block devices.

DRBD basically is a RAID 1 over the net. Same downsides as iSCSI.

Both technologies make it possible that you have a new shared SCSI device available which you may format with a cluster filesystem.

[1] http://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/rhel-c...csi-howto.html
[2] http://www.linux-ha.org/DRBD/HowTo/Install
 
  


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