Deploying a Highly Available NFS Cluster on RHEL 9 with DRBD Reactor Tech Guide

The Deploying an HA NFS Cluster with DRBD and DRBD Reactor on RHEL 9 or AlmaLinux 9 tech guide gives instructions for setting up and configuring a high-availability (HA) NFS three-node cluster, by using DRBD® and DRBD Reactor.

DRBD Reactor is a cluster resource manager developed by LINBIT® that can be simpler to configure and implement than a Pacemaker and Corosync solution. You can even use Open Cluster Framework (OCF) resource agents in your configurations, as the deployment in this guide uses.

After following the instructions in the guide, you will have an HA NFS share on a LAN. Even if one of the cluster nodes fails, DRBD Reactor will fail over the NFS share to another node. A client can continue to access the NFS share during a failover event, even in the middle of accessing a file on the share.

Michael Troutman

Michael Troutman

Michael Troutman has an extensive background working in systems administration, networking, and technical support, and has worked with Linux since the early 2000s. Michael's interest in writing goes back to an avid reading filled childhood. Somewhere he still has the rejection letter from a publisher for a choose-your-own-adventure style novella, set in the world of a then popular science fiction role-playing game, cowritten with his grandmother (a romance novelist and travel writer) when at the tender age of 10. In the spirit of the open source community in which LINBIT thrives, Michael works as a Documentation Specialist to help LINBIT document its software and its many uses so that it may be widely understood and used.

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