QS Introduction SharedNothing

A shared-nothing cluster consists of two nodes, each with their own locally accessible ZFS storage pool residing on non shared storage:

flowchart TD
    SNa("Node A")<-->|SAS/FC etc.|SNSa
    SNb("Node B")<-->|SAS/FC etc.|SNSb
    SNSa[("Storage")]
    SNSb[("Storage")]

Data is replicated between nodes by an HA synchronisation process. Replication is always done from the active to the passive node, where the active node is the one serving out the pool to clients:

flowchart LR
    SNa("Node A (active)<br />Pool-A")-->|HA Synchronisation|SNb
    SNb("Node B (passive)<br />Pool-A")

Should a failover occur then synchronisation is effectively reversed:

flowchart RL
    SNa("Node B (active)<br />Pool-A")-->|HA Synchronisation|SNb
    SNb("Node A (passive)<br />Pool-A")