Chris's Wiki :: blog/linux/UnderstandingDRBD Commentshttps://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/linux/UnderstandingDRBD?atomcommentsDWiki2010-12-14T13:51:50ZRecent comments in Chris's Wiki :: blog/linux/UnderstandingDRBD.From 156.56.14.156 on /blog/linux/UnderstandingDRBDtag:CSpace:blog/linux/UnderstandingDRBD:632f0aac54ab4ee5937db9d08aed0e1478f4b62cFrom 156.56.14.156<div class="wikitext"><p>I also work for a university and I run a hosting service for researchers. I have two data centers at my disposal about 50 miles apart. I use DRBD to cut down the sync time as part of a migration between the data centers. Doing rsync on 100GB of small files is avoidable if the block devices are synced.</p>
</div>2010-12-14T13:51:50ZFrom 157.193.214.156 on /blog/linux/UnderstandingDRBDtag:CSpace:blog/linux/UnderstandingDRBD:4f6c965fdbb59406cc0f1e976c43cc494d1edf86From 157.193.214.156<div class="wikitext"><p>You might want to have a look at Google's Ganeti project:</p>
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<p>which is a tool to manage virtual machines on a DRBD based backend.</p>
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Serge.vanGinderachter.be
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