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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link="#0563C1" vlink="#954F72"><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal>I am looking for guidance on the recommend settings as I convert to shards. I have read most of the list back through last year and I think the conclusion I came to was to keep it simple. <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>One: It may take months to convert my current VM images to shard’s, do you see any issues with this? My priority is to make sure future images are distributed as shards. <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Two: Settings, my intent is to set it as follows based on guidance on the Redhat site and what I have been reading here. Do these look okay? Additional suggestions?<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Modified Settings<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>=====================<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>features.shard enable<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>features.shard-block-size 512MB<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>data-self-heal-algorithm full<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Current Hardware<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>=====================<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Hyper-converged. VM’s running Gluster Nodes<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Currently across three servers. Distributed-Replicate - All Bricks 1TB SSD<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Network - 10GB Connections<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Image Sizes – Up to 300GB<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Current Gluster Version<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>=======================<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>3.8.4<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Current Settings<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>=====================<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Type: Distributed-Replicate<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Number of Bricks: 4 x 3 = 12<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Transport-type: tcp<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Options Reconfigured:<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>cluster.server-quorum-type: server<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>cluster.quorum-type: auto<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>network.remote-dio: enable<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>cluster.eager-lock: enable<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>performance.stat-prefetch: off<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>performance.io-cache: off<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>performance.read-ahead: off<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>performance.quick-read: off<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>server.allow-insecure: on<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>performance.readdir-ahead: on<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>performance.cache-size: 1GB<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>performance.io-thread-count: 64<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>nfs.disable: on<o:p></o:p></p></div></body></html>