Hi all,
I'm busy with creating High Availablity for 2 SME servers bases upon Heartbeat (
http://www.linux-ha.org) and DRBD (
http://www.complang.tuwien.ac.at/reisner/drbd/)
. Let me explain;
- 2 SME servers represented to the user as only 1 server (with exact same data on both of them)
- Automatic Fail-over, Fail-back between the 2 of them (with current data)
- real- time mirroring (RAID-1) of user data (incl. open files e.g. databses) from server 1 to server 2.
I'm getting the point where it's going to be usefull in practice, so I'm would like to know if there are any of you really interested in a draft How-To.
Note this, I'm not the same caliber as other guys like e.g. Dan B., Darrell, Des, Charlie, Jamie or Filippo and MANY others, but since I had the need for this HA 'feature' I just gave it a try......
I would like to know if you would be interested in a How-To that will get you started so that I know if I have to translate my personal (unreadable) notes in a more clear paper AND i would also like to know how 'big' the demand for such a feature would be so maybe others are interested to improve the initial how-to for there are many issues to be resolved to get to a 'out of the box' solution. (and maybe Mitel likes the idea too 'cause of the 'high' demand...
...)
So, please reply with 'yes' or 'No' to this thread so we ca get a better picture of the 'need' for this. Maybe you would like to add the exact situation you would like to use it for or any other comment, It would be appreciated.
If you think 'what's this? what a crap..' that's ok by me, please ignore this posting.
Regards,
guestHH