Re: Support for DRDB

On 16/01/15 10:43 AM, Dmitri Maziuk wrote:
> On 1/16/2015 8:39 AM, Lars Marowsky-Bree wrote:
>> On 2015-01-16T11:56:04, "EXTERNAL Konold Martin (erfrakon,
> RtP2/TEF72)" <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>>> I have been told that support for DRBD is supposed to be phased
>>> out  from both SLES and RHEL in the near future.
>>
>> This is massively incorrect for SLE HA. (drbd is part of the HA add-on,
>> not SLES.) We have absolutely no such plans, and will continue to
>> support drbd as part of our offerings.
>>
>> Where did you hear that?
>
> Don't know about RHEL but on Centos you get DRBD from ELRepo, not even
> EPEL, so I expect it has not been in the RHEL for quite some time.
> Unless RedHat's offering it as a separate add-on to their paying
> customers (but the last rumour I heard was they wouldn't do it 'cause
> they didn't want to share the loot with linbit).
>
> Dima

When RHEL 6 was released, Red Hat wanted to reduce their support 
overhead a lot. So many things that used to be supported were dropped. 
DRBD, unlike most other dropped programs, is still supported, just not 
by RH directly. They worked out an agreement with LINBIT to allow 
officially supported RHEL systems to be fully supported when they ran 
DRBD. The agreement was that RHEL users who needed DRBD support 
specifically would be routed to LINBIT for that support.

So though it's changed, it is still supported.

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