[Gluster-users] mixing tcp/ip and ib/rdma in distributed replicated volume for disaster recovery.

Di Pe dipeit at gmail.com
Sat Jan 22 13:48:29 UTC 2011


Does anyone know if one can mix infiniband and tcp/ip ?

Thanks

On Fri, Jan 14, 2011 at 11:16 AM, Di Pe <dipeit at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> we would like to build a gluster storage systems that combines our
> need for performance with our need for disaster recovery. I saw a
> couple of posts indicating that this is possible
> (http://gluster.org/pipermail/gluster-users/2010-February/003862.html)
> but am not 100% clear if that is possible
>
> Let's assume I have a total of 6 storage servers and bricks and want
> to spread them across 2 buildings for DR. server1-3 are in building1
> server 4-6 are in building2. I create a distributed replicated volume
> and make sure that server1 replicates to server4, server2 to server5
> and server3 to server6. I have this running today and it's working
> reasonably well. Now I have a couple of high performance compute
> systems in the server room of building 1 are currently using glusterfs
> to talk to the gluster storage cluster. Throughput is great, latency
> not so. I believe I have 2 options:
>
> 1. connecting server1,2,3 to my new IB switch (with rdma) and keep my
> compute servers connected via a tcp mount point /mnt/gluster. Latency
> will be reduced during normal operations. Gluster will figure out to
> use server1,2,3 because they can serve the files much quicker and will
> leave server4-6 for replication. If a server2 dies server4 will
> automatically take over serving files. Performance is reduced for many
> files but the end user does not experience and outage. Is this
> correct?
>
> 2. connecting server1,2,3 AND my compute systems to my new IB switch
> and mount storage via an rdma mount point /mnt/gluster-fast.  End
> users will experience even lower latency. If server2 dies users will
> continue to be able to access files that were residing on the other 2
> servers, however all files that were on server2 become unavailable and
> long running compute jobs might die. The end user needs to switch to
> tcp mount point /mnt/gluster to be able to access the files on server2
> and other servers. Is this correct?
>
>
> Are my assumptions correct?
>
> Should I use 2 mount points to /mnt/gluster and /mnt/gluster-fast to
> give users the choice between very reliable and very performant?
>
> Thanks
> dipe
>



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