[Gluster-users] How to raed / write in geo-replication slave

[Milos Cuculovic - MDPI]

Hi Sweta,

Thank you for your reply.

You're right, the configuration you mentioned is the right one.

The problem with the solution 1 is that I need bi-directional sync.
The solution 2 is also not possible, I need to allow users to write on 
both places in the same time.

I saw there is a possibility to do GlusterFS Distribute to Replica, I 
tried this out but the synchronization is done synchronous, so it takes 
time to do it and it is very slow.

Any solution?

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On 15.07.2015 07:23, Sweta Anandpara wrote:
> Hi Milos,
>
> If I get this correctly, this is your configuration below:
>
> * Geo-rep master- Europe
> * Geo-rep slave - Asia
> * Same web application installed, and users from Asia are redirected to
> slave (in Asia), users from rest of the world are directed to master (in
> Europe)
>
> And you want read/write facility to be available in slave as well.
>
> YES, this is possible.
> BUT, it defeats the purpose of geo-replication. As per the concept of
> disaster recovery, read/writes should be carried out only at the master,
> and slave (if at all used), should be limited to only read workload. In
> your case, the very first write to the slave is going to render your
> geo-rep setup out-of-sync, and you would eventually have to delete off
> all the (new) content at the slave to get back the master and slave in sync.
>
> 1. If you are okay with this and would still like to go ahead with
> writes at both master and slave, all you would have to do is get the
> slave volume online.
> 2. Alternative: IF you are okay with writes happening at only one of the
> place at a time, then you could alternate between making Asia as
> master(and Europe as slave) and Asia as slave (and Europe as master),
> with the steps mentioned in this section of the Admin guide:
> http://documentation-devel.engineering.redhat.com/site/documentation/en-US/Red_Hat_Storage/3/html-single/Administration_Guide/index.html#Promoting_a_Slave_to_Master
>
> Would like to reiterate again - (2) is fine..  (1) is NOT recommended.
> Do reach out for any other queries.
>
> Thanks,
> Shweta
>
>
>
>
> On 07/14/2015 07:57 PM, Milos Cuculovic - MDPI wrote:
>> Hi All,
>>
>> I have two GlusterFS servers, one master and one slave.
>> They are doing geo-replication.
>>
>> I need to read and write on both of them.
>>
>> Here are some details:
>>
>> 2 data centers (One in Europe and one in Asia)
>> The same web application is installed on both data centers
>> Users from Asia are redirected to the Asian DC
>> Users from the rest of the World and redirected in Europe
>> The application is r/w some files from the glusterFs storage server
>> The master is in Europe, and the r/w is fast
>> I need people from the Asian DC to also r/w directly in Asia
>>
>> Is this possible, if so, any help please?
>>
>> I appriciate your help.
>>
>> Milos
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