[PLUG] [ANNOUNCEMENT] PLUG Advanced Topics Meeting *Wednesday* December 16th, 2009

[Tony Rick]

On Thu, Dec 10, 2009 at 2:41 PM, Alan <alan at clueserver.org> wrote:

> NOTE: The meeting time and location has changed again.
>
> PLUG Advanced Topics
> December 16th, 2009
> 7pm - 9pm
>
> Roots Organic Brewing
> 1520 Southeast 7th Avenue
> Portland, OR 97214-3568
> (503) 235-7668
>
> Using DRBD to Build High-Availability Clusters on Commodity Hardware
>
> Charlie Schluting of LINBIT will explain how DRBD works and how people
> currently use it, with enough information to get you started building
> your own clusters.
>
> DRBD stands for Distributed Replicated Block Device, and as the name
> implies, allows you to replicate block devices over TCP. DRBD is
> extremely flexible due to the fact it is a block device, and as such is
> used in a variety of situations. At the most basic level, you can
> replicate data between two servers to provide synchronously replicated
> storage redundancy for either failover or disaster recovery purposes. In
> active/active mode, you can also run GFS, OCFS2, or other clustered file
> systems.
>
> Topics that will be covered:
> - How it works, history, and future exciting news regarding mainline
> kernel inclusion
> - How it is used: HA-iSCSI, HA-NFS, Virtualization, Apache, Samba, etc.
> - Cluster Resource Manager options and recommendations, and news about
> the confusing changes in the Linux-HA / Clusterlabs communities.
>
> And the majority of the time will be spent on:
> - Example cluster configuration: hardware setup, installation and
> configuration, and cluster manager integration.
>
> Come with questions!
>


I notified Sarah the events coordinator at Roots that AT would be meeting on
the 16th, and said that someone associated with the meeting usually called
ahead on the same day to make sure they were expecting the group.

- tony