[Gluster-users] Newbee Question: GlusterFS on Compute Cluster?

[James]

On Fri, 2013-05-10 at 18:56 -0400, Michael Brown wrote:
> OK, if you want to be cool, use an IPv6 multicast group :)
Hmmm... I'm embarrassed to say I haven't done enough IPv6 to know about
this sort of cool trick. Does this really work? Maybe you have more
info?

James

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> From: James
> Sent: Friday, May 10, 2013 18:54 PM
> To: mozes at ksu.edu
> Reply To: James
> Cc: gluster-users at gluster.org
> Subject: Re: [Gluster-users] Newbee Question: GlusterFS on Compute
> Cluster?
> 
> 
> On Fri, May 10, 2013 at 6:45 PM, Adam Tygart <mozes at k-state.edu>
> wrote:
> > Randy,
> >
> > On my compute cluster we use round-robin dns (for HA of the volume
> > definition) and mount the GlusterFS volume via the FUSE (native)
> client. All
> > of the I/O would go directly to the nodes, rather than through an
> > intermediary (NFS) server.
> I've mentioned this once before, but in my opinion, using something
> like vrrp (eg: keepalived) is better than using rr-dns. Also it's
> cooler.
> 
> James
> 
> >
> > --
> > Adam Tygart
> > Beocat Sysadmin
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> >
> > On Fri, May 10, 2013 at 5:38 PM, Bradley, Randy
> <Randy.Bradley at ars.usda.gov>
> > wrote:
> >>
> >>
> >> I've got a 24 node compute cluster. Each node has one extra
> terabyte
> >> drive. It seemed reasonable to install Gluster on each of the
> compute nodes
> >> and the head node. I created a volume from the head node:
> >>
> >> gluster volume create gv1 rep 2 transport tcp
> compute000:/export/brick1
> >> compute001:/export/brick1 compute002:/export/brick1
> >> compute003:/export/brick1 compute004:/export/brick1
> >> compute005:/export/brick1 compute006:/export/brick1
> >> compute007:/export/brick1 compute008:/export/brick1
> >> compute009:/export/brick1 compute010:/export/brick1
> >> compute011:/export/brick1 compute012:/export/brick1
> >> compute013:/export/brick1 compute014:/export/brick1
> >> compute015:/export/brick1 compute016:/export/brick1
> >> compute017:/export/brick1 compute018:/export/brick1
> >> compute019:/export/brick1 compute020:/export/brick1
> >> compute021:/export/brick1 compute022:/export/brick1
> >> compute023:/export/brick1
> >>
> >> And then I mounted the volume on the head node. So far, so good.
> Apx. 10
> >> TB available.
> >>
> >> Now I would like each compute node to be able to access files on
> this
> >> volume. Would this be done by NFS mount from the head node to the
> compute
> >> nodes or is there a better way?
> >>
> >>
> >> Thanks,
> >>
> >> Randy
> >>
> >>
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