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Proxmox High Availability

Proxmox High Availability

By : CHENG MAN
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Proxmox High Availability

Proxmox High Availability

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By: CHENG MAN

Overview of this book

If you want to know the secrets of virtualization and how to implement high availability on your services, this is the book for you. For those of you who are already using Proxmox, this book offers you the chance to build a high availability cluster with a distributed filesystem to further protect your system from failure.
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Storage preparation for an LVM shared storage

According to the Installing and configuring DRBD section in Chapter 4, Configuring a Proxmox VE Cluster, we have built an LVM volume with the /dev/sdc1 partition on both the Proxmox nodes to form our DRBD device. The /dev/sdc1 partition contains an LVM identifier on it as the LVM storage, and the LVM service tries to import it to the system; this might affect our DRBD mount point. It would be better to filter out this device to prevent any possible error by editing the /etc/lvm/lvm.conf file on both cluster nodes. Before we make any change to the file, we should back up the file with the following command:

root@vmsrv01# cp /etc/lvm/lvm.conf /etc/lvm/lvm.conf.bak

Then, we can make the following changes:

Original: filter = ["a/.*/" ]
New: filter = ["a|/dev/drbd1|", "r|/dev/sdc1|", "a/.*/" ]

In this example, we have defined the configuration, which is explained in the following points:

  • a|/dev/drbd1|: This accepts...

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