Thursday, May 23, 2013
What DRBD is, and what is new in DRBD9!
by Philipp Reisner (LINBIT HA-Solutions GmbH)
Thursday, 23.05.2013, London II, 16:00-16:30 Uhr
DRBD is a block-based data replication solution available and well known since a couple of years. DRBD is designed to turn ready available applications into highly-available applications without the need for SAN infrastructure. In fact DRBD can be used to build high available storage-heads for IP-based, replicated SANs and long distance data replication.
Until today DRBD had a limitation to two nodes in principle. With DRBD9 a new release is in preparation (release candidate) which allows for the first time to do block based replication to up to 32 nodes. Out of the DRBD's features a number of deployment scenarios arise: HA-databases, file servers, block based storage targets, storage for a private cloud infrastructure and more.
About the author Philipp Reisner:
Philipp Reisner is CTO of LINBIT Information Technologies GmbH in
Vienna. He was born in 1975 in Vienna, Austria. During his studies of
computer sciences at the Technical University in Vienna (TU Wien),
Philipp Reisner developed the cluster solution DRBD® that is in the
meantime successfully used around the globe. DRBD got accepted into
mainline Linux with the 2.6.33 release. Philipp is an internationally
renowned OSS specialist, kernel programmer and eminent lecturer on high
availability at international Linux events.