[Gluster-devel] Does gluster suit my need?

[Gareth Bult]

Sure. 

If you're just after processing power, have you tried NFS? 

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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Alsan Wong" <alsan at shangen-tech.com> 
To: "Gareth Bult" <gareth at encryptec.net> 
Cc: gluster-devel at nongnu.org 
Sent: Friday, April 25, 2008 11:51:11 PM GMT +00:00 GMT Britain, Ireland, Portugal 
Subject: Re: [Gluster-devel] Does gluster suit my need? 

Hi, 

Not exactly. I'd like to run the VMs at the computing cluster host (cause it does have dual quad core CPU with VT support), and gain processing power from other nodes of the computing cluster by using GlusterHPC. The VMs image remains on the computing cluster host, and the data would goes to the GlusterFS. 

Does it feasible? 


On Sat, Apr 26, 2008 at 6:26 AM, Gareth Bult < gareth at encryptec.net > wrote: 


Hi, 

Are you talking about sitting the VM storage on the GlusterFS in the form of disk images? 

Gareth. 




----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Alsan Wong" < alsan.wong at gmail.com > 
To: gluster-devel at nongnu.org 
Sent: Friday, April 25, 2008 11:01:38 PM GMT +00:00 GMT Britain, Ireland, Portugal 
Subject: [Gluster-devel] Does gluster suit my need? 

Hi, 

I get several machines, some of them are old (actually, not that old, just 2 
to 3 years). I would like to build a big cluster like this: 

I'll divide those machines into three groups, computing, storage, backup 
storage. As their name, the computing group would be a cluster of physical 
machines which is responsible to run application. 

Best of all, the computing cluster would run several virtual machines across 
the cluster. Thus, the server of the computing cluster would run vmware or 
xen, and hosting serveral virtual machines inside (note: the no. of virtual 
machines may more then physical machines). The other machines in the cluster 
would be diskless (all storage goes to the storage and backup storage 
cluster), and act as the processing power supplier and the being the 
terminal to the virtual machines. 

As I know, such similar architecture can be constructed by using EnSpeed 
(another OSS project on clustering, http://www.enspeed.com ) easily, but one 
of the requirement for me is hard to fulfill - they require all CPUs of the 
cluster nodes support VT, and that is not possible in my situation. 

I've notice that another project, Kerrighed ( http://kerrighed.org ) do also 
fit the needs of my computing cluster, I might try it later. 

So, can I build a such cluster by using GlusterHPC + GlusterFS? or do I need 
to combine another solution(s)? 

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