With DRBD®, all Weather Data needed was a set of two, large Commercial Off-The-Shelf Servers!
With DRBD®, all Weather Data needed was a set of two, large Commercial Off-The-Shelf Servers!
1 Pagesbackground WeatherData Services, Inc. specializes in weather risk management for businesses, educational institutions, and government agencies. It provides warnings, forecasts, and other services tailored to each client‘s needs. Data storage, processing, and availability are critically important aspects of WeatherData‘s IT infrastructure. business challenge T o migrate 24/7 data processing operations from one site to another without downtime. Mission-critical clustered application servers relied on NFS, so WeatherData needed a zero downtime mechanism to move their data center. The only other option for storage replication across two sites was to purchase two SAN-attached arrays, and enable LUN replication. The cost of two SANs, Fiber Channel interconnects, and the license
