[Gluster-users] Network Topology Question

[Joop]

On 22-5-2015 18:48, Joe Julian wrote:
> This is a concept that needs some work to implement, but could
> potentially see a benefit from that topography:
> https://docs.google.com/document/d/15IiPVIPMzgGwkt1sKuIusRE2l3pQY6NnA4WmWaMsFJE/edit?usp=sharing
>
> On 05/22/2015 09:02 AM, Jeff Darcy wrote:
>> ----- Original Message -----
>>
>>> Hi there,
>>> I'm planning to setup a 3-Node Cluster for oVirt and would like to
>>> use 56 GBe
>>> (RoCe)
>>> exclusively for GlusterFS. Since 56 GBe switches are far too
>>> expensive and
>>> it's not
>>> planned to add more nodes and furthermore this would add a SPOF I'd
>>> like to
>>> cross connect the nodes as shown in the diagram below:
>>> Node 1 Node 2 Node3
>>> ||_______||________||
>>> |___________________|
>>> This way there's a dedicated 56 Gbit connection to/from each member
>>> node.
>>> Is is possible to do this with GlusterFS?
>>> My first thought was to have different IPs on each node's /etc/host
>>> mapped to
>>> the node
>>> hostnames but I'm unsure if I can force GlusterFS to hostnames
>>> instead of
>>> IPs.
>>
I think this will work since the VMs will be running on the same 3
gluster hosts making all traffic local to the cluster, it wouldn't work
without extra effort if you had a seperate set of hosts acting as
clients. You can still seperate rebalancing traffic to a seperate
subnet/vlan if you wish.

Regards,

Joop