Setting up a high-availability database with replicated storage

The last part of this chapter focuses on setting up a HA MariaDB database with replicated storage. To begin, we will have to set up another DRBD resource as we did earlier. We will review the necessary steps here for clarity:

  1. Add another virtual disk to each virtual machine (a 2 GB disk will do).
  2. Create a partition on the newly added disk and then go through the process of creating a Physical Volume (PV) on /dev/sdc1, a Volume Group (VG, named drbd_db_vg), and finally a Logical Volume (LV, drbd_db_vol):
    parted /dev/sdc mklabel msdos
parted /dev/sdc mkpart p 0% 100%
pvcreate /dev/sdc1
vgcreate drbd_db_vg /dev/sdc1
lvcreate -n drbd_db_vol -l 100%FREE drbd_db_vg
  3. Create a configuration file ...

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