[Gluster-users] Hardware Sizing Requirments

[Bobby Jacob]

Hi,

We will be deploying 2 gluster nodes (relica-mode) across 2 of our sites. The sites are connected over 8Gig dark fibre. Our storage disks will be assigned from EMC VNX storage (SAS/NL-SAS disks). 

This gluster volume will be mounted on 2 application servers, 1 on each site. The application will be load balanced for user access. This volume mount-point will act as the data  directory for user data. We will have about 500 users performing simultaneous read-writes to the volume.

In this scenario, what would be the recommended memory/CPU requirements for the gluster nodes. Each node gluster node will be a virtual machine (Centos 6.4 / GlusterFS 3.3.2).

Thanks & Regards,
Bobby Jacob

-----Original Message-----
From: Whit Blauvelt [mailto:whit.gluster at transpect.com] 
Sent: Wednesday, August 28, 2013 5:12 PM
To: Bobby Jacob
Cc: gluster-users at gluster.org
Subject: Re: [Gluster-users] Hardware Sizing Requirments

Bobby,

I'm not the one who can say. But those who can will need to know much more than you've specified. What kind of drives are you using, with what controllers? What's are the network components between your two nodes? What is the range of file sizes, in what distribution over that range? How many simultaneous reads and writes do you expect on average, and at peak? How many simultaneous users will there be? What sorts of daemons and services will the file storage support? 

Best,
Whit

On Wed, Aug 28, 2013 at 01:52:23PM +0000, Bobby Jacob wrote:
> Hi,
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> We have a need for setting up 2-Node replica Gluster volume. The 
> storage will have high read-write requests as this volume will be 
> serving as a data store for user’s data.
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> Brick size              =             15 TB.
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> What is the recommended memory/CPU requirement for such a deployment 
> that each gluster node should have. ?
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> Thanks & Regards,
> 
> Bobby Jacob
> 
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