How to Setup High Availability with Heartbeat and DRBD on Ubuntu 16.04 | Linux Today

How to Setup High Availability with Heartbeat and DRBD on Ubuntu 16.04

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Hitesh Jethva
Mar 27, 2018

In this tutorial, we will learn how to achieve high availability of MariaDB using Heartbeat and DRBD on Ubuntu 16.04 server. Heartbeat and DRBD both are used for a cluster solution for any application using two servers. Both servers are work in active and passive mode, one server will work at the same time and another server as a backup server.

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Hitesh Jethva

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