[Gluster-users] Scaling Gluster

[José Celano]

On Mon, May 23, 2011 at 4:16 PM, Joshua Baker-LePain <jlb17 at duke.edu> wrote:

> On Thu, 19 May 2011 at 12:40am, José Celano wrote
>
>
>  I have 2 replicated servers and several Apache servers that mount the same
>> volume.
>> When I mount a Gluster Volumen from one of the Apache servers
>>
>> mount.glusterfs
>>
>> ip-XX-XXX-XXX-XXX.eu-west-1.compute.internal:/dab578f4-06fa-4584-ac1d-c6ef14e6d0cf
>> /mnt/glusterfs
>> how could I obtain high availability if that server die?
>>
>
> Use ucarp to share a virtual IP address between the Gluster servers, and
> mount using that IP address.
>

It seems that solution don´t work because you have to use fixed IP for
virtual IP and Amazon Elastic IP
isn´t exactly a fixed IP. I have only found this information about this
issue:

and http://gluster.org/pipermail/gluster-users/2011-March/006759.html
and
http://gluster.com/community/documentation/index.php/GlusterFS_1.3_P2P_Cluster_with_Auto_Healing

See also:

http://support.scalr.net/discussions/questions/746-scaling-gluster


>
> --
> Joshua Baker-LePain
> QB3 Shared Cluster Sysadmin
> UCSF
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