[Gluster-users] Gluster storage for Windows clients

[Ryan Nix]

Maybe use round robin DNS

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> On Jan 24, 2015, at 6:15 PM, Dan Lambright <dlambrig at redhat.com> wrote:
> 
> 
> You could try windows multi path, and route each iSCSI connection to a different replica. But this is not a well tested configuration. Ceph may be a better option for you?
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "shacky" <shacky83 at gmail.com>
>> To: gluster-users at gluster.org
>> Sent: Saturday, January 24, 2015 3:32:47 PM
>> Subject: [Gluster-users] Gluster storage for Windows clients
>> 
>> Hi.
>> 
>> I wish to use Gluster on a two or three nodes cluster to give an high
>> available storage to some Windows Server virtual machines.
>> 
>> I read on
>> http://www.gluster.org/community/documentation/index.php/GlusterFS_iSCSI
>> that I could configure some iSCSI targets on a Gluster Linux client to
>> let iSCSI initiator on Windows servers mount it.
>> 
>> But doing to will create a single point of failure, because if the
>> client goes down, the initiator won't connect to the storage. And if
>> possible I don't like to add one or two more virtual machines for
>> Gluster clients.
>> So I could configure iSCSI targets on Gluster servers, but in this
>> case how I can manage the failover in case of failure?
>> 
>> Thank you very much for your help!
>> Bye
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