[Gluster-users] Gluster for Vmware

[Ryan Nix]

If you're asking if you can run VMWare images off of Gluster, then yes, you can.  Gluster supports NFS mount points which VMWare ESX also supports.

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> On Aug 25, 2014, at 12:06 AM, Chandrahasa S <chandrahasa.s at tcs.com> wrote:
> 
> Dear All, 
> 
> Is there any way to use Glusterfs volume for Vmware environment. 
> 
> 
> Chandra. 
> 
> 
> 
> From:        Ben Turner <bturner at redhat.com> 
> To:        Juan José Pavlik Salles <jjpavlik at gmail.com> 
> Cc:        gluster-users at gluster.org 
> Date:        08/22/2014 08:57 PM 
> Subject:        Re: [Gluster-users] Gluster 3.5.2 gluster, how does cache work? 
> Sent by:        gluster-users-bounces at gluster.org 
> 
> 
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Juan José Pavlik Salles" <jjpavlik at gmail.com>
> > To: gluster-users at gluster.org
> > Sent: Thursday, August 21, 2014 4:07:28 PM
> > Subject: [Gluster-users] Gluster 3.5.2 gluster, how does cache work?
> > 
> > Hi guys, I've been reading a bit about caching in gluster volumes, but I
> > still don't get a few things. I set up a gluster replica 2 volume like this:
> > 
> > [root at gluster-test-1 ~]# gluster vol info vol_rep
> > Volume Name: vol_rep
> > Type: Replicate
> > Volume ID: b77db06d-2686-46c7-951f-e43bde21d8ec
> > Status: Started
> > Number of Bricks: 1 x 2 = 2
> > Transport-type: tcp
> > Bricks:
> > Brick1: gluster-test-1:/ladrillos/l1/l
> > Brick2: gluster-test-2:/ladrillos/l1/l
> > Options Reconfigured:
> > performance.cache-min-file-size: 90MB
> > performance.cache-max-file-size: 256MB
> > performance.cache-refresh-timeout: 60
> > performance.cache-size: 256MB
> > [root at gluster-test-1 ~]#
> > 
> > Then I mounted the volume with gluster client on another machine. I created
> > an 80Mbytes file called 80, and here you have the reading test:
> > 
> > [root at gluster-client-1 gluster_vol]# dd if=/mnt/gluster_vol/80 of=/dev/null
> > bs=1M
> > 80+0 records in
> > 80+0 records out
> > 83886080 bytes (84 MB) copied, 1,34145 s, 62,5 MB/s
> > [root at gluster-client-1 gluster_vol]# dd if=/mnt/gluster_vol/80 of=/dev/null
> > bs=1M
> > 80+0 records in
> > 80+0 records out
> > 83886080 bytes (84 MB) copied, 0,0246918 s, 3,4 GB/s
> > [root at gluster-client-1 gluster_vol]# dd if=/mnt/gluster_vol/80 of=/dev/null
> > bs=1M
> > 80+0 records in
> > 80+0 records out
> > 83886080 bytes (84 MB) copied, 0,0195678 s, 4,3 GB/s
> > [root at gluster-client-1 gluster_vol]#
> 
> You are seeing the effect of client side kernel caching.  If you want to see the actual throughput for reads run:
> 
> sync; echo 3 > /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches; dd blah
> 
> Kernel caching happens on both the client and server side, when I want to see uncached performance I drop caches on both clients and servers:
> 
> run_drop_cache()
> {
>    for host in $MASTERNODE $NODE $CLIENT
>    do
>        ssh -i /root/.ssh/my_id root@${host} echo "Dropping cache on $host"
>        ssh -i /root/.ssh/my_id root@${host} sync
>        ssh -i /root/.ssh/my_id root@${host} "echo 3 > /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches"
>    done
> }
> 
> HTH!
> 
> -b
> 
> > Cache is working flawlessly, (even though that 80 Mbytes is smaller than the
> > min-file-size value, but I don't care about it right now) what I don't get
> > is where cache is being stored. Is it stored on the client side or on the
> > server side? According to documentation, the io-cache translator could be
> > loaded on both sides (client and server), how can I know where it is being
> > loeaded? It looks like as it was being stored locally because of the speed,
> > but I'd like to be sure.
> > 
> > Thanks!
> > 
> > --
> > Pavlik Salles Juan José
> > Blog - http://viviendolared.blogspot.com
> > 
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