opensource wide area san?

[Bryan O'Neal]

Have you thought about an Open AFS cluster?

On Wed, Jul 29, 2009 at 2:06 PM, Stephen <cryptworks at gmail.com> wrote:

> We are useing an openfiler server here and it has been running great.
>
> right now it is hosting several iSCSI connections to our servers
> however we need to replicate data on one of the iSCSI volumes between
> 2 sites.
>
> internally using DRBD/heartbeat comes to mind as a new but no brainer
> solution. however these servers need to live in 2 different states
> (and eventually maybe 3-4 locations)
>
> generally it would seem that rsync would be better however it is a
> file level replication and seems that it would not be able to
> replicate the iSCSI volume which is block level...
>
> can DRBD/heartbeat sync across a t-1 or pair of bonded t-1's? or will
> it eat the pipe?
>
> --
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>
> Stephen
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