[Gluster-users] Need help for production setup

[Punit Dambiwal]

Hi Juan,

Thanks for the advise...but if we use the Hardware RAID then what is the
purpose of using glusterfs ?? We don't want to use HW RAID and want to
leverage the gluster replication...

If we use the HW RAID that means it will create another overhead (First HW
RAID replication and second glusterfs replication)...

Thanks,
Punit


On Sat, Aug 16, 2014 at 9:47 PM, Juan José Pavlik Salles <jjpavlik at gmail.com
> wrote:

> Hi Punit, I'm not Gluster expert however I'm also in the way of building a
> production gluster like you. What I've read is that even though you are
> using a replicated volume, is a good practice to have RAID 5 o 6 (depending
> on the amount of disks) under it. RAID will help you when drives die (which
> they will) and replication will help you when nodes die (which they will
> eventually, or maybe some maintenance tasks, power shortagges), so they are
> two different solutions for two different problems.
>
> As far as I know, if you are using the native client to access the gluster
> volumen you are already using HA.
>
> Regards!
>
>
> 2014-08-15 4:39 GMT-03:00 Punit Dambiwal <hypunit at gmail.com>:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I want to use gluster distributed replicate storage with 4 nodes with the
>> below configuration :-
>>
>>
>>    - 4 x *Quanta STRATOS S210-X22RQ*
>>    - 4 x 12 x 512 GB , 2.5″ SSD (front, hot swappable main storage)
>>    - 4 x 2 x 128 GB, 2’5″ SSD (*rear, hot swappable* os drives, awesome
>>    feature!)
>>    - 2 x quality stacked switches (with one leg of each bond device out
>>    to each switch)
>>    - IPMI: For Fencing Ovirt.
>>
>> I want to use this setup in ovirt...I seek your help to best utilize the
>> storage with redundancy(even one node failure or any HDD failure) ??
>>
>> Do i need to use the HW RAID also...it seems the gluster replication can
>> do the same...any advise ??
>>
>> Also i want it to be high available...if any node goes down the data can
>> be accessible...please refer any good document for HA with keepalived or
>> others ??
>>
>> Thanks,
>>  Punit
>>
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>
>
>
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