ternarybit
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- Nov 6, 2012
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I had this dream, a wonderful dream, where two FreeNAS boxes could mirror each other and automatically fail over to one another, creating elegant, simple, cost-effective, automatically backed-up, highly available storage.
Then I read about CARP and HAST, which sounds like just the ticket. I read several guides and manpages, and it all looks very promising.
But the devil's in the details, as they say.
My biggest question is how to keep *everything* mirrored. In my dream, these two boxes would seamlessly remain mirrors of each other, not only in data, but configuration. Can HAST be configured on top of the FreeNAS volumes to keep configs replicated? If this is even possible, are there caveats, pitfalls, etc. I should be aware of?
Also, I don't want to duplicate effort. Is HA on the roadmap for future releases? If so, I might be better off just leaving this to the pros.
Finally, has anyone actually done this, or something like it? Care to share your experience? If such a storage nirvana isn't quite ready for the world of FreeNAS, how might I go about it?
As always, thanks in advance!
Then I read about CARP and HAST, which sounds like just the ticket. I read several guides and manpages, and it all looks very promising.
But the devil's in the details, as they say.
My biggest question is how to keep *everything* mirrored. In my dream, these two boxes would seamlessly remain mirrors of each other, not only in data, but configuration. Can HAST be configured on top of the FreeNAS volumes to keep configs replicated? If this is even possible, are there caveats, pitfalls, etc. I should be aware of?
Also, I don't want to duplicate effort. Is HA on the roadmap for future releases? If so, I might be better off just leaving this to the pros.
Finally, has anyone actually done this, or something like it? Care to share your experience? If such a storage nirvana isn't quite ready for the world of FreeNAS, how might I go about it?
As always, thanks in advance!