[CoLoCo] [COLOCO] Vmware on NFS Overview of Backup/DR strategy

[David L. Willson]

Much, much later...

I'm not to the point of DRBD yet.  I have done live copying during quiet times, which works surprisingly well, and I have suspend-rsync-resume scripts.  For my next amazing trick I'm going to use LVM and script LVM snapshot, rsync, destroy snapshot.  Look ma, no suspend.  DRBD can work, too, but I don't have a complete understanding of how it works, so I wouldn't want to rely on it.

David L. Willson
Network Engineer
MCT, MCSE, Linux+
tel://720.333.LANS


----- Original Message -----
From: "Leon Jaimes" <slyride at gmail.com>
To: "Ubuntu Colorado Local Community Team" <ubuntu-us-co at lists.ubuntu.com>
Sent: Thursday, January 15, 2009 10:47:26 AM GMT -07:00 US/Canada Mountain
Subject: [CoLoCo] [COLOCO] Vmware on NFS Overview of Backup/DR strategy

Hello,
I am looking at running some VMware servers that will have the vdisks
on NFS boxes.
Does anyone have any suggestions for doing this so that it would have
a fairly high level of redundancy.
I'm currently thinking of having a 15k SAS RAID 5 server for the front
end, then running the disks off of a NFS server using 15k SAS RAID 5.
Options I'm currently looking at are to copy vdisks daily to another
NFS box, then periodicly dump them to tape.  I'd also be interested if
anyone is using DRBD / NFS / VMware.
Thanks
L-

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