[Gluster-users] HA strategy

Krishna Srinivas krishna at zresearch.com
Thu Aug 14 10:20:12 UTC 2008


On Thu, Aug 14, 2008 at 3:23 PM, Keith Freedman <freedman at freeformit.com> wrote:
> At 01:55 AM 8/14/2008, Rob S wrote:
>>Hi,
>>
>>I'm looking to gluster to help improve the performance of a
>>multiserver web platform.  We've a small amount of data (~50-100MB)
>>that needs to be shared between all web front-ends.  At present, the
>>data is stored in a MySQL blob and replicated out to each front end.
>>I've read the documentation at
>>http://www.gluster.org/docs/index.php/High-availability_storage_using_server-side_AFR.
>>  My question is: Should I run 2 gluster servers, and several gluster
>>clients,

Yes that would work nicely.

> or could I make each machine a gluster server, and sync using
>>AFR?

Running server on every client will mean that
you will have as many copies as the number of clients.

Krishna




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