[Gluster-users] Replication between two separate clusters

Jeffrey Negro jnegro at billtrust.com
Mon May 24 17:03:33 UTC 2010


We're also in the process of upgrading our bandwidth at the moment, so I
don't have a latency metric at the moment.  The end result would be minimum
10Mb Metro Ethernet (Level 3 TLS) on each side, with traffic passing over a
Juniper SSG IPsec VPN tunnel.


On Mon, May 24, 2010 at 12:25 PM, Kamal K. Varma <kamal at gluster.com> wrote:

> 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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