[Gluster-users] gluster on VM and RDBMS

[Vijay Bellur]

On 02/11/2014 11:27 AM, Suvendu Mitra wrote:
> Hi,
> We are planning to run glusterfs on openstack based VM cluster, I
> understood that gluster replication is based on file level. What is the
> drawback of running RDBMS on gluster
>

Do you intend running a database within a VM whose disks reside on a 
gluster volume? If so, that is something which GlusterFS should be able 
to handle. It is recommended to run pre-production tests to ensure that 
the desired performance requirements are met.

Regards,
Vijay