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<div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">Both are bad. Why -> you have an "even" number of replicas and this can cause split brain situation.</div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">I would recommend you to consider this approach:</div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">Server A - Replica_A1</div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">Server B - Replica_A2,Arbiter_B</div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">Server C - Arbiter_A,Replica_B1<br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">Server D - Replica_B2</div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">As the arbiter doesn't require much resources, you can use it safely.</div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">The negative side of such deployment - you have 2 separate volumes which you have to manually balance the VM's images so both Volumes keep the same level of load.</div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">Still, this is my own opinion and it might be a better solution.</div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">Best Regards,</div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">Strahil Nikolov<br></div><div><br></div>
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В петък, 6 септември 2019 г., 12:54:48 ч. Гринуич+3, Cristian Del Carlo <cristian.delcarlo@targetsolutions.it> написа:
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<div><div id="ydp692c1406yiv2636526414"><div dir="ltr"><div>Hi,</div><div><br></div><div>I have an environment consisting of 4 nodes ( with large disks).</div><div></div><div>I have to create a volume to contain image of virtual machines.<br></div><div><br></div><div>Is it better to set a Distributed Replicated Volumes like this?</div><div><br></div># gluster volume create test-volume replica 2 transport tcp server1:/exp1 server2:/exp2 server3:/exp3 server4:/exp4<div><br></div><div>Or a Replicated Volumes like this?<br></div><div><br></div><div># gluster volume create test-volume replica 4 transport tcp server1:/exp1 server2:/exp2 server3:/exp3 server4:/exp4</div><div><br></div><div>Thanks,<br></div><div>-- <br><div dir="ltr" class="ydp692c1406yiv2636526414m_7838903899162045366gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><span></span><span></span><br></div><div><font><b><font color="#990000"><i><br></i></font></b></font></div><div><font><b><font color="#990000"><i>Cristian Del Carlo</i></font></b><br></font></div><div></div><br></div></div></div></div></div>_______________________________________________<br>Gluster-users mailing list<br><a href="mailto:Gluster-users@gluster.org" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Gluster-users@gluster.org</a><br><a href="https://lists.gluster.org/mailman/listinfo/gluster-users" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://lists.gluster.org/mailman/listinfo/gluster-users</a></div>
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