<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=us-ascii"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Hi,<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Since I am new with Gluster, need your advices. I have 2 different Gluster configuration:</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><b class=""><u class="">Purpose:</u></b> Need to create 5 Gluster volumes. I am running the gluster version is 3.9.0.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><b class=""><u class="">Config #1: 5 bricks from one zpool</u></b></div><div class=""><ul class=""><li class="">3 storage nodes.</li><li class="">Using hardware raid to create one array with raid5 (9+1) per storage node </li><li class="">Create a zpool on top of the array per storage node</li><li class="">Create 5 ZFS shares (each share is a brick) per storage node</li><li class="">Create 5 volumes with replica of 3 using 5 different bricks.</li></ul></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><b class=""><u class="">Config #2: 1 brick from one zpool</u></b></div><div class=""><ul class=""><li class="">3 storage nodes.</li><li class="">Using hardware raid to create one array with raid5 (9+1) per storage node</li><li class="">Create a zpool on top of the array per storage node</li><li class="">Create 1 ZFS shares per storage node. Using the share as brick.</li><li class="">Create 5 volumes with replica of 3 with same share.</li></ul><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">1) Is there any different on the performance on both config? </div><div class="">2) Will the single brick be handling parallel writing vs multiple brick?</div><div class="">3) Since I am using hardware raid controller, any option that I need to enable or disable for the gluster volume?</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Best Regards,</div><div class="">~ Vic Le</div><div class=""><br class=""></div></div></body></html>