Jan
14
2011
Here are a few steps to configure iSCSI disks on Linux. Although I set this up on a Redhat Enterprise 5.5 connected to an HP MSA 2012i, the whole configuration remains generic and can be applied to any SAN. I will add another post to check how both Linux and Windows perform on the same [...]
Tags: failover, HP, iSCSI, linux, load-balance, LVM, MSA, multipath, redhat, SAN, Storage
Aug
20
2009
Most of us already know cluster features aren’t provided on Windows 2003 server Standard Edition. The thing is you’ve got a shared storage space but you can’t (or don’t want to) afford 2 Windows Enterprise licences just for a file server. There is DFS indeed but one acknowledge it is a pity to replicate data [...]
Tags: 2003 server, cluster, disk, DOS, drive, failover, file server, nbtstat, netbios, netbt, redondant, script, share, standard edition, volume, Windows
Aug
30
2008
Channel bonding – or port truncking – gives the ability to apply a policy to a group of network interfaces. It is then possible to load-balance the traffic accross different ports, or keep one aside for failover. Module Loading Declare the channel bonding bond0 interface into /etc/modprobe.conf # Channel Bonding alias bond0 bonding options [...]
Tags: bonding, channel, failover, interface, linux, load-balance, network, port, redhat, truncking