[Gluster-users] Replication between two separate clusters

Kamal K. Varma kamal at gluster.com
Mon May 24 16:25:45 UTC 2010


Hi Jeffery,

What would latency between your two clusters be?

Kamal

Jeffrey Negro wrote:
> Hello -
> 
> My company is in need of a clustered NAS solution, mostly for CIFS
> fileshares.  We have been considering commercial solutions from Isilon and
> NetApp, but I have a feeling I'm not going to get the budget approval for
> those products.  I also tend to stay away from closed hardware solutions...
> but I digress.  We want to have a production and a DR cluster that replicate
> across a WAN.  Is it possible with Gluster to have two separate clusters
> replicating volumes that are already mirrored in their independent cluster?
> So far it looks like that's what AFR is supposed to do.
> 
> Any information or assistance that anyone can provide in clarifying my
> understanding of this scenario would be very helpful and much appreciated.
> 
> Thank you,
> 
> Jeffrey
> 
> 
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