[Gluster-users] Need help for production setup

Vijay Bellur vbellur at redhat.com
Mon Aug 18 05:44:10 UTC 2014


On 08/18/2014 09:11 AM, Punit Dambiwal wrote:
> Hi Juan,
>
> Understand...but if i am using replica=3 then ?? As using the HW raid
> with commodity HDD will be not good choice...and if i choose HW raid
> with enterprise grade HDD then cost will be higher and then there will
> be no use to choose glusterfs for storage...
>

For replica 3, I don't think hardware RAID would be beneficial. HW raid 
is recommended for replica 2 scenarios with gluster to provide an 
additional degree of redundancy.

-Vijay







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