[Gluster-users] to RAID or not?

Joe Julian joe at julianfamily.org
Mon Jul 4 15:05:20 UTC 2016


IMHO you use raid for performance reasons and gluster for fault tolerance and scale.

On July 4, 2016 7:54:44 AM PDT, Gandalf Corvotempesta <gandalf.corvotempesta at gmail.com> wrote:
>No suggestions ?
>Il 14 giu 2016 10:01 AM, "Gandalf Corvotempesta" <
>gandalf.corvotempesta at gmail.com> ha scritto:
>
>> Let's assume a small cluster made by 3 servers, 12 disks/bricks each.
>> This cluster would be expanded to a maximum of 15 servers in near
>future.
>>
>> What do you suggest, a JBOD or a RAID? Which RAID level?
>>
>> 15 servers with 12 disks/bricks in JBOD are 180 bricks. Is this an
>> acceptable value?
>> Multiple raid6 for each servers? In example, RAID-6 with 6 disks and
>> another RAID-6 with the other 6 disks. I'll loose 4 disks on each
>> servers, performance would be affected and rebuild times would be
>huge
>> (by using 2TB/4TB disks)
>>
>> Any suggestions?
>>
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