MySQL and DRDB on Rackspace - testing

Initial Server Setup

dpkg-reconfigure tzdata

apt-get update
apt-get upgrade

aptitude install libauthen-pam-perl libio-pty-perl libmd5-perl libnet-ssleay-perl apt-show-versions openssl

wget http://www.webmin.com/download/deb/webmin-current.deb

dpkg -i webmin-current.deb

Server Access

Webmin URL access: https://xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx:10000/

Setup MySQL

aptitude install mysql-server
/etc/init.d/webmin restart
# edit the module config and set the password to whatever the root password is

DRDB Specific

Check that it is working:

cat /proc/drbd

root@mysql-a:~# cat /proc/drbd
version: 8.3.8 (api:88/proto:86-94)
srcversion: 299AFE04D7AFD98B3CA0AF9

Get the local IP address:

ip addr show
1: lo:  mtu 16436 qdisc noqueue state UNKNOWN
    link/loopback 00:00:00:00:00:00 brd 00:00:00:00:00:00
    inet 127.0.0.1/8 scope host lo
    inet6 ::1/128 scope host
       valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever
2: eth0:  mtu 1500 qdisc pfifo_fast state UP qlen 1000
    link/ether 40:40:5b:8e:52:2d brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
    inet 46.38.184.186/24 brd 46.38.184.255 scope global eth0
    inet6 fe80::4240:5bff:fe8e:522d/64 scope link
       valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever
3: eth1:  mtu 1500 qdisc pfifo_fast state UP qlen 1000
    link/ether 40:40:46:29:50:21 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
    inet 10.176.91.215/18 brd 10.176.127.255 scope global eth1
    inet6 fe80::4240:46ff:fe29:5021/64 scope link
       valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever

Make a resource file name ending with *.res:

nano /etc/drbd.d/drbd-res0.res

Add the following replacing with the correct host IP addresses:

resource drbd-resource-0 {
  protocol C;

  disk {
    on-io-error panic;
  }

  syncer {
    rate 100M;
  }

  on host-a {
    device    /dev/drbd0;
    disk      /dev/hda8;
    address   10.176.91.215:7789;
    meta-disk  internal;
  }

  on host-b {
    device    /dev/drbd0;
    disk      /dev/hda8;
    address   10.176.91.216:7789;
    meta-disk  internal;
  }

}

Create 11gB block device:

dd if=/dev/zero of=/drbd-loop.img bs=1024 count=10485760

References: Rack Hacker

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More to come shortly - contact me if you need progress on this, been very busy so this may not get updated.