<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:Courier New, courier, monaco, monospace, sans-serif;font-size:10pt"><div><span>Thanks, Lars:</span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13.3333px; font-family: Courier New,courier,monaco,monospace,sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><br><span></span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13.3333px; font-family: Courier New,courier,monaco,monospace,sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span>Using cLVM2 for the back-end sounds like a strong possibility. How would you recommend making the SAN highly-available to the OCFS2 cluster (i.e., the SAN clients)? Is this type of scenario something that is already engineered into the </span>SUSE Linux Enterprise High Availability Extension?</div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13.3333px; font-family: Courier New,courier,monaco,monospace,sans-serif;
background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><br></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13.3333px; font-family: Courier New,courier,monaco,monospace,sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;">Eric Pretorious</div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13.3333px; font-family: Courier New,courier,monaco,monospace,sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;">Truckee, CA<br></div><div><br><blockquote style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; margin-top: 5px; padding-left: 5px;"> <div style="font-family: Courier New, courier, monaco, monospace, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"> <div style="font-family: times new roman, new york, times, serif; font-size: 12pt;"> <div dir="ltr"> <font face="Arial" size="2"> <hr size="1"> <b><span style="font-weight:bold;">From:</span></b> Lars Marowsky-Bree <lmb@suse.de><br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b>
ocfs2-users@oss.oracle.com <br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> Friday, September 14, 2012 4:10 AM<br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b> Re: [Ocfs2-users] HA-OCFS2?<br> </font> </div> <br>
On 2012-09-13T17:02:46, Eric <<a ymailto="mailto:epretorious@yahoo.com" href="mailto:epretorious@yahoo.com">epretorious@yahoo.com</a>> wrote:<br><br>> Is it possible to create a highly-available OCFS2 cluster (i.e., A storage cluster that mitigates the single point of failure [SPoF] created by storing an OCFS2 volume on a single LUN)?<br><br>Yes. You can use either cLVM2 with a mirrored volume for example, or<br>store the data on storage that handles this internally (e.g., a<br>mirroring SAN, iSCSI to DRBD, etc).<br><br><br>Regards,<br> Lars<br><br>-- <br>Architect Storage/HA<br>SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, GF: Jeff Hawn, Jennifer Guild, Felix Imendörffer, HRB 21284 (AG Nürnberg)<br>"Experience is the name everyone gives to their mistakes." -- Oscar Wilde<br><br><br>_______________________________________________<br>Ocfs2-users mailing list<br><a ymailto="mailto:Ocfs2-users@oss.oracle.com"
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