On Sun, Jun 20, 2010 at 10:36 AM, Elior Soliman <elior.soliman@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hello, > > My company looking for some solution for High availability with Postgres. > > Our optional solution is as follows : > Two DB servers will be using a common external storage (with raid). Both > servers are going to use the same DB files on the storage (as > active/passive) > > Now I'm trying to understand how Postgres can work with this configuration. > I.e : > > DB_server1 crashed, so we want to start DB_server2 using same files. > Is it possible ? I've used the Symantec Storage Foundation & Cluster Server products in the past. Worked very well in shared SAN storage, 4-way cluster with 3 service groups each running PostgreSQL. Easy to configure and manage too. Their volume manager and file system are very mature and always recovered well. HTH. Greg -- Sent via pgsql-admin mailing list (pgsql-admin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-admin
