[Gluster-users] Storage Cluster Question

[Todd Daugherty]

I have not used it in production yet but I did a test with:
http://gluster.org/docs/index.php/Translators/cluster/stripe

That was quite nice across 8 servers for Quicktime files (average file 1GB).

Why would you say no to Xen VM files?

Todd

On Mon, Jun 29, 2009 at 5:52 PM, Nathan Stratton<nathan at robotics.net> wrote:
> On Mon, 29 Jun 2009, Francisco Cabrita wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>> I am trying to get a large storage system up and running.
>> The thing is I don't know if Glusterfs is the right option here. So I need
>> your help/experience choosing the right path.
>>
>> For storage I have just one server with almost 2Tb free. I can link to
>> clients via Gb or phyber channel.
>> Then I have two servers running Xen VM's. Each virtual machine is a raw
>> image file with almost 12Gb.
>
> So are you planing on using GlusterFS to store xen image files?
>
>> Running GlusterFS in (NFS Like storage Server), is the right solution for
>> me? Do I need to consider another solution.
>
> If you need general file storage on Dom0 or DomUs, I think Gluster is a
> great option. However if your looking to store xen image files, I think you
> need to keep looking.
>
> We run DRBD between pairs servers in 4 TB primary / primary for xen image
> files and then one 12T Gluster across all servers for general file storage.
>
>
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>
> Nathan Stratton                                CTO, BlinkMind, Inc.
> nathan at robotics.net                         nathan at blinkmind.com
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