================================================= DRBD - High availability network disk replication ================================================= The Gist ======== DRBD refers to block devices designed as a building block to form high availability (HA) clusters. This is done by mirroring a whole block device via an assigned network. DRBD can be understood as network based raid-1. http://drbd.org Highlights ========== + Open source + Synchronously replicate storage over the network using commodity hardware