[Gluster-users] How to use gluster for WAN/Data Center replication

[Mohit Anchlia]

Thanks for the info! I am assuming it's a manual process to remove
nodes from the DNS?

If I am not wrong I think load balancing by default occurs for native
gfs client that you are using. Initial mount is required only to read
volfile.

How do you ensure that a copy of file in one site definitely is saved
on other site as well?

On Thu, Mar 10, 2011 at 1:11 AM, anthony garnier <sokar6012 at hotmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
> I have done a setup(see my setup below) on multi site datacenter with
> gluster and currently it doesn't work properly but there is some workaround.
> The main problem is that replication is synchronous and there is currently
> no way to turn it in async mod. I've done some test
> (iozone,tar,bonnie++,script...) and performance
> is poor with small files especially. We are using an url to access servers :
> glusterfs.cluster.inetcompany.com
> This url is in DNS GSLB(geo DNS)+RR (Round Robin)
> It means that client from datacenter 1 will always be binded randomly on
> storage node from his Datacenter.
> They use this command for mounting the filesystem :
> mount -t glusterfs glusterfs.cluster.inetcompany.com:/venus
> /users/glusterfs_mnt
>
> If one node fails , it is remove from de list of the DNS, client do a new
> DNS query and he is binded on active node of his Datacenter.
> You could use Wan accelerator also.
>
> We currently are in intra site mode and we are waiting for Async replication
> feature expected in version 3.2. It should come soon.
>
>
> Volume Name: venus
> Type: Distributed-Replicate
> Status: Started
> Number of Bricks: 2 x 4 = 8
> Transport-type: tcp
> Bricks:
> Brick1: serv1:/users/exp1  \
> Brick2: serv2:/users/exp2   > Réplica pool 1 \
> Brick3: serv3:/users/exp3  /                  \
> Brick4: serv4:/users/exp4                       =Envoyer>Distribution
> Brick5: serv5:/users/exp5  \                  /
> Brick6: serv6:/users/exp6   > Réplica pool 2 /
> Brick7: serv7:/users/exp7  /
> Brick8: serv8:/users/exp8
>
> Datacenter 1 : Brick 1,2,5,6
> Datacenter 2 : Brick 3,4,7,8
> Distance between Datacenters : 500km
> Latency between Datacenters : 11ms
> Datarate between Datacenters : ~100Mb/s
>
>
>
> Regards,
> Anthony
>
>
>
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>>Date: Wed, 9 Mar 2011 16:44:27 -0800
>>From: Mohit Anchlia <mohitanchlia at gmail.com>
>>Subject: [Gluster-users] How to use gluster for WAN/Data Center
>>	replication
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>>How to setup gluster for WAN/Data Center replication? Are there others
>>using it this way?
>>
>>Also, how to make the writes asynchronuous for data center replication?
>>
>>We have a requirement to replicate data to other data center as well.