[Gluster-users] What's the best volume type for VM

[Vijay Bellur]

On 02/09/2015 10:52 AM, vyyy杨雨阳 wrote:
> Hello，
>
> Can anyone help me  and  give me some advice?
>
> I have been using GlusterFS for about two years, We use Distributed
> Replicated volumes to hold files as NAS, Now I want to hold some VM
> images (KVM/Vmware). I am interested in Striped volume to improve IO
> performance.
>
> But I found in admin guide, There are notes: *"In this release,
> configuration of this volume type is supported only for Map Reduce
> workloads" *both for Distributed Striped Replicated and Striped
> Replicated volume.
>
> Dose this mean those two kind volumes can't use for VM and other
> application?
>
> Which kind of volume is the best practise for hold VM.
>

Distributed Replication is still the recommended volume type for holding 
virtual machine images.

The planned support for sharding in GlusterFS 3.7 [1] will most likely 
deprecate striping for all use cases.

Regards,
Vijay

[1] 
http://www.gluster.org/community/documentation/index.php/Features/sharding-xlator