[Gluster-devel] [Gluster-users] [RFC] GlusterFS Operations Guide

Paul Cuzner pcuzner at redhat.com
Wed Jun 4 02:10:52 UTC 2014


This is a really good initiative Lala. 

Anything that helps Operations folks always gets my vote :) 

I've added a few items to the etherpad. 

Cheers, 

PC 

----- Original Message -----

> From: "Lalatendu Mohanty" <lmohanty at redhat.com>
> To: gluster-users at gluster.org, gluster-devel at gluster.org
> Sent: Friday, 30 May, 2014 11:33:35 PM
> Subject: Re: [Gluster-users] [Gluster-devel] [RFC] GlusterFS Operations Guide

> On 05/30/2014 04:50 PM, Lalatendu Mohanty wrote:

> > I think it is time to create an operations/ops guide for GlusterFS.
> > Operations guide should address issues which administrators face while
> > running/maintaining GlusterFS storage nodes. Openstack project has an
> > operations guide [2] which try to address similar issues and it is pretty
> > cool.
> 

> > IMO these are the typical/example questions which operations guide should
> > try
> > to address.
> 

> > * Maintenance, Failures, and Debugging
> 

> > > * What are steps for planned maintenance for GlusterFS node?
> > 
> 

> > > * Steps for replacing a failed node?
> > 
> 

> > > * Steps to decommission a brick?
> > 
> 

> > * Logging and Monitoring
> 

> > > * Where are the log files?
> > 
> 

> > > * How to find-out if self-heal is working properly?
> > 
> 

> > > * Which log files to monitor for detecting failures?
> > 
> 

> > Operating guide needs good amount of work, hence we all need to come
> > together
> > for this. You can contribute for this by either of the following
> 

> > * Let know others about the questions you want to get answered in the
> > operating guide. ( I have set-up a etherpad for this [1])
> 
> > * Answer the questions/issues raised by others.
> 

> > Comments, suggestions?
> 
> > Should this be part of gluster code base i.e. /doc or somewhere else?
> 

> > [1] http://titanpad.com/op-guide
> 
> > [2] http://docs.openstack.org/ops/oreilly-openstack-ops-guide.pdf
> 

> > Thanks,
> 
> > Lala
> 
> > #lalatenduM on freenode
> 

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> Resending after fixing few typos.

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