Xen Live Migration with DRBD on Debian Jessie: Part 3 – DRBD | Lisenet.com :: Linux | Security

The following is part 3 of a 3 part series that goes over installation and configuration of Xen live migration with DRBD.

This article covers a installation and configuration of a DRBD resource.

The convention followed in the article is that [ALL]# denotes a command that needs to be run on both Xen nodes.

Installation

[ALL]# apt-get install drbd8-utils

Global DRBD Configuration

Open /etc/modprobe.d/drbd.conf for editing and add the following line:

options drbd disable_sendpage=1

Create the file if one does not exist.

Our global DRBD configuration /etc/drbd.d/global_common.conf can be seen below.

global {
        usage-count no;
}
common {
        handlers {
                # split-brain "/usr/lib/drbd/notify-split-brain.sh root";
        }
        startup {
                wfc-timeout 30;
        }
        options {
		on-no-data-accessible io-error;
        }
        disk {
                on-io-error detach;
                resync-rate 10M; #100Mbps link
                #fencing resource-and-stonith;
        }
        net {
                protocol C;
                timeout 50; #5 seconds
                allow-two-primaries yes;
                cram-hmac-alg sha1;
                shared-secret XenNodes;
                after-sb-0pri discard-zero-changes;
                after-sb-1pri discard-secondary;
                after-sb-2pri disconnect;
                rr-conflict disconnect;
                ping-timeout 10; #1 second
                verify-alg sha1;
                csums-alg sha1;
        }
}

DRBD Resources Configuration

We are going to need a logical volume to store DRBD metadata:

[ALL]# lvcreate --size 1g --name lv_meta vg_xen

In /etc/drbd.d/jessie01-disk.res below, we can see that we specify the line with meta-disk as using /dev/vg_xen/lv_meta[0]. Same device (logical volume) can be used to store meta-data for several DRBD resources, that is done with adding [X] after the device name.

Our DRBD resource /etc/drbd.d/jessie01-disk.res configuration can be seen below.

resource jessie01-disk {
 meta-disk /dev/vg_xen/lv_meta[0];
 device /dev/drbd0;
 disk /dev/vg_xen/jessie01-disk;
 on xen01.hl.local {
  address  172.16.22.13:7789;
 }
 on xen02.hl.local {
  address  172.16.22.14:7789;
 }
}

Also, on the xen02 node only, create a logical volume called jessie01-disk and match the size of the one that’s on xen01 (4GB in our case):

[xen02]# lvcreate --size 4g --name jessie01-disk vg_xen

Create device metadata, bring the device up and force to become a primary node:

[xen01]# drbdadm create-md jessie01-disk
[xen01]# drbdadm up jessie01-disk
[xen01]# drbdadm primary --force jessie01-disk
[xen01]# drbd-overview
 0:jessie01-disk/0  WFConnection Primary/Unknown UpToDate/Outdated

Initialise and bring up DRBD resource on the second Xen node, and wait until synced:

[xen02]# drbdadm create-md jessie01-disk
[xen02]# drbdadm up jessie01-disk

[xen02]# watch drbd-overview
 0:jessie01-disk/0  SyncTarget Secondary/Primary Inconsistent/UpToDate
        [============>.......] sync'ed: 67.5% (1339308/4097084)K

Once the sync is complete, set the xen02 DRBD node to primary to enable Xen live migration:

[xen02]# drbdadm primary jessie01-disk

[xen02]# drbd-overview
 0:jessie01-disk/0  Connected Primary/Primary UpToDate/UpToDate