[Gluster-users] advice on optimal configuration

[Vikas Gorur]

On Mar 9, 2010, at 3:58 PM, Barry Robison wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> I have 128 physically identical blades, with 1GbE uplink per blade,
> and 10GbE between chassis ( 32 blades per chassis ). Each node will
> have a 80GB gluster partition. Dual-quad core intel Xeons, 24GB RAM.
> 
> The goal is to use gluster as a cache for files used by render
> applications. All files in gluster could be re-generated or retrieved
> from the upstream file server.

How do you plan to keep the gluster cache and the upstream fileserver in sync?

> My first volume config attempt is 64 replicated volumes with partner
> pairs on different chassis.
> 
> Is replicating a performance hit? Do reads balance between replication nodes?

Replication will reduce write performance. Reads however will be balanced between
the subvolumes.

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Vikas Gorur
Engineer - Gluster, Inc.
+1 (408) 770 1894
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