planet-ha.org

The latest addition to the Planetarium is → planet-ha.org, a feed aggregator covering blogs and news feeds about all things HA. Active as of today, Planet HA is intended as a central location where you can find the latest open source high availability additions to the blogosphere.

Florian’s blog

Florian is partner management and senior consultant at LINBIT^®. He is the principal author of the DRBD User's Guide. His → blog always has some in-depth coverage of DRBD-related topics.

Heartbeat's Linux-HA.org and Clusterlabs.org

Heartbeat is the cluster manager that is used with most DRBD^® installations, the → original heartbeat site. The new resource manager of Heartbeat is now called Pacemaker and has its own → pacemaker website.

Csync2

→ Csync2 is a very useful tool to keep files or whole directory trees in sync over two or more machines. It was initially designed to keep DRBD's and Heartbeat's configuration files in sync but it can do a lot more now.

Linux Clustering Information Center

The → Linux Clustering Information Center, is a huge collection of links and information about the whole topic of clustering including high performance computing clusters and load balancing in addition to high availability clustering.

GFS on DRBD Cookbook

→ At RedHat's Sourceware site there is a nice cookbook on how to use GFS on top of DRBD^®.

DRBD for virtual machines

→ At gridvm.org there is a description on how to use DRBD^® as backend storage for virtual machines.