Failover

[XylexRayne]

I was tasked with finding a way to make a freenas server fail-over in the event one goes down.
One server will hold current data and be replicated in real-time as its written, to another freenas server.

My question, how can I make traffic fail over to another server in the event one goes down.
In terms of protocols, I am referring largely to NFS, and iSCSI but it may also include CIFS, and Rsync. I do realize that when the primary server does drop, active connections will be lost.

I am simply asking if its possible to have the connections re-establish on the fail-over server without having wetware involvement, or large data issues.

 

[cyberjock]

In short: No. It's not possible.

In long: Yes, you could probably write code to make it work "good enough", then compile your own version of FreeNAS to use it. But, generally speaking, since you are asking the question the answer is probably "you don't have the expertise to do this".