Comments on Installing and Configuring Openfiler with DRBD and Heartbeat

I have some questions on HA. In this instruction, you have mention about IP address of HA (HA NAS/SAN Address (eth0) 192.168.1.17) so that mean we need to have another HA machine to do this or something else, please help to advise opn this.

Best regards,

Pisey

I have completed all the instruction but except HA, I don't understand - where can we set the ip address of HA: 192.168.1.17, we set it on filer01, filer02 or ... something else. Please help on this.

Best regards,

Pisey

The ip address you refer to is the "cluster" ip and sits on the primary node of the HA cluster.

In this example an ext3 filesystem is used; this means only one disk can be mounted at a particular instance; this node would have the cluster ip. It is possible to use gfs with drbd for a clustered filesystem & eliminate heartbeat for filesystem mounting and ip migration.

I got it, now it is working. Thanks for your reply.

Best regards,

Pisey

The GUI does not work after doing this. Especially setting up iScsi. Any ideas?

Note: if the commands above generate errors about needing to zero out the file system, use the following command:

root@filer01 ~# dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sda3

it take long time to wait for this. For example if my partition is 1GB - i think it is ok but if it is 500GB. How long that I need to wait for run this command. So do we have another solution for this.

Thanks,

Pisey

You dont need to wait to complete operation.
you can also abort the command after some seconds.
in the fact you need only to delete the header of the partition.
i dont now how many bytes is mean.

Or you can just wipe a few megabytes of the partition:

dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sda3 bs=1M count=128

I really need to get this implementation done, but I have a little problem, I'm a real newbie on Linux, I have tested and used succesfully the OpenFiler Virtual Appliance, running it over ESX and it works fine, but I don't know how to modify the files you are saying. Is this configuration possible over the Virtual Appliance? or I need to do a clean install of Openfiler?

gilly05 and other folks,

This guide is great.

I was wondering if there is any other more recent and/or updated and/or revised version of this guide or anything with instructions how to set up DRBD and Heartbeat on OpenFiler 2.3.

Is there anything else?

Thanks,

PS: I have created a post for this in the forums:

https://www.howtoforge.com/forums/showthread.php?p=218075#post218075

I found a tutorial that is for 2.3 the other day

http://wiki.the-mesh.org/wiki/OpenFilerHaSetup

Dear all,

My drbd status show ro Primary/Secondary instead of st. What would be the issue ?

service drbd status