[Gluster-users] Run gluster server from flash drive

[Juan José Pavlik Salles]

Hi James, that post was my inspiration actually hahaha. I just re-checked
the link and you are right, there's an optional fixed internal bay for
drives so I'll ask the seller if they can provide it. When I asked them for
this specification they said that only 826B chasis have the rear drive kit.


2014-08-11 16:53 GMT-03:00 James <purpleidea at gmail.com>:

> On Mon, Aug 11, 2014 at 3:03 PM, Juan José Pavlik Salles
> <jjpavlik at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hi Guys, we are about to get two of these
> > http://www.supermicro.com/products/system/4U/6047/SSG-6047R-E1R36N.cfm
> and
> > the seller said that we have to use one of the 36 drives as OS drive. I'd
> > like to avoid using one of the swappable drives for the OS, has anyone
> tried
> > running gluster nodes from flash pendrives? Is it a better idea than
> loosing
> > one of the drives? Any other idea?
> >
> > Regards,
>
>
> Some of these supermicro servers allow you to add two 2.5" drives (eg:
> for a software mdadm raid 1) in the rear with a special bracket. If
> the server doesn't support this bracket, then you can enclose them
> internally. I wrote about this type of hardware setup here:
> https://ttboj.wordpress.com/2012/07/19/my-gluster-setup-described/
> (old post, not necessarily still relevant, but idk)
>
> HTH
> James
>



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