[mdlug] Samba and F5 for Failover?

[Robert Adkins]

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> From: mdlug-bounces at mdlug.org 
> [mailto:mdlug-bounces at mdlug.org] On Behalf Of Wojtak, Greg
> Sent: Wednesday, October 07, 2009 10:38 AM
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> Subject: Re: [mdlug] Samba and F5 for Failover?
> 
> Thanks for the insight.  Yeah, at this point I'm more 
> concerned with just being *able* to bring everything back up 
> and having as much of the data there as possible.  In the 
> scenario I drew out, serverA and serverB are actually red hat 
> cluster instances.  We've got samba failover *within* a site 
> down pat.  Going from one data center to another, not so 
> much.  One huge challenge I am facing is that the way our 
> company's network is designed, our vlan's don't extend from 
> one datacenter to another, and in fact cannot without a huge, 
> massive overhaul.  <facepalm>  So a distributed cluster, or 
> any other kind of transparent failover is out of the 
> question... especially with samba.
> 

  This does change some things and is outside of my area of knowledge.

  You should be able to get a clean answer from the samba mailing list.
There's some excellent posters on that mailing list, some of which are
intimately involved in the day to day development of Samba.

	-Rob