DRBD is a low-cost shared-SAN-like solution, which has several great benefits, among which are no single point of failure, and very low cost (local storage and network cable). Its main disadvantages are in the need to constantly monitor it, and make sure it does what’s expected. Also – in some cases – performance might be affected greatly….
I had one of my computers die a short while ago. I wanted to get the data inside its disk into another computer. Using the magical and rather cheap USB2SATA I was able to connect the disk, however, the disk was part of a software mirror (md device) and had LVM on it. Gets a…
While DL140 G3 is quite a new piece of hardware, RHEL4, even with the later updates, is rather old. When you decide to install RHEL4 on a DL140 G3 server, my first recommendation is this: if you decide to use the embedded SATA-II RAID controller – don’t. This is a driver-based RAID, much like the…
A copy of a post made in Ubuntu forms, with the hope it would help others in status such as I’ve been in. Available through here In afterthought, I think the header should be non-common, rahter than non-standard… Hi all. I have passed through this forum yesterday, searching for a possible cause for a problem…
I have installed today an HP-UX 11i V2 on PA-Risc server, and it went quite fine. I have used the “Technical Environment” DVDs for installation, and it went fine. I was unable to find, however, the Raid1 (Mirror) tools for the LVM. Symptoms: There is no parameter “-m” to “lvextend“. According to documentaion (or even…
Using the same installation server as before, my laptop, I was able to install Linux Centos 4.3, with the addition of HP’s drivers for Adaptec SATA raid controller, on my new HP ML110 G3. Using just the same method as before, when I’ve installed Centos 4.3 on IBM x306, but with HP drivers, I was…
