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<p class="MsoNormal">Hello,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">I have been reading the below statement in GlusterFS docs &amp; articles regarding multi-tenancy. Is this statement related to virtual environment ie VM&#8217;s. How valid is &#8220;partitioning users or groups into logical volumes&#8221;. Can someone explain
 what it really means. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Is it that I can associate a user/group(UID/GID) like NFS to a glusterFS volumes ?<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://gluster.readthedocs.io/en/latest/Administrator%20Guide/GlusterFS%20Introduction/">https://gluster.readthedocs.io/en/latest/Administrator%20Guide/GlusterFS%20Introduction/</a><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:&quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;;color:#404040;background:#FCFCFC">GlusterFS.
<span style="background:yellow;mso-highlight:yellow">It supports multi-tenancy by partitioning users or groups into logical volumes on shared storage.</span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:&quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;;color:#404040;background:#FCFCFC"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:&quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;;color:#404040;background:#FCFCFC"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:&quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;;color:#404040;background:#FCFCFC">My though was I can do multi-tenancy at volume level as below.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:&quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;;color:#404040;background:#FCFCFC"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>
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<![if !supportLists]><span style="font-family:Symbol;color:#1F497D"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">&middot;<span style="font:7.0pt &quot;Times New Roman&quot;">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="color:#1F497D">Create a distributed volume named data1 for tenant1 from StorageNode1-5 using Disk1(raided) using NIC-1 network<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<![if !supportLists]><span style="font-family:Symbol;color:#1F497D"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">&middot;<span style="font:7.0pt &quot;Times New Roman&quot;">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="color:#1F497D">Similarly create distributed volume named data2 for tenant2 from StorageNode1-5 using Disk2(raided) using NIC-2 network<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">Is my understanding correct ? How is the user/group come into picture.</span><span style="font-family:&quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;;color:#404040;background:#FCFCFC"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:&quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;;color:#404040;background:#FCFCFC"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:&quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;;color:#404040;background:#FCFCFC"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:&quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;;color:#404040;background:#FCFCFC">--<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:&quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;;color:#404040;background:#FCFCFC">Deepak</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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