[Gluster-users] Gluster Virtual Appliance

[Gandalf Corvotempesta]

2013/2/24 Matthew Farrellee <matt at redhat.com>:
> If I understand you, the boot path is,
>
>  0. boot 4 physical servers
>  1. boot 4 gluster VMs, one per server w/ mapped physical disks
>  2. mount gluster volumes on each server
>  3. boot generic VMs, 10 per server

Correct.

> Doing non-virt gluster saves storing the gluster images (small, 15-20GB),
> the mapping of physical disks into the gluster VMs, and any potential
> overhead introduced by gluster working against virtualized disks.
>
> Unless you have some reason to put gluster in a VM, some advice is to keep
> it physical.

Ok, i'll go with phisical installation