[Gluster-users] How beefy does an arbiter box have to be?

[Ravishankar N]

On 03/30/2016 12:12 AM, William Kern wrote:
> We have a few replica 2 clusters using Gluster 3.4  for various projects.
>
> They have worked very well, but we always had to be careful about 
> split brain when doing maintenance or in the event of a failure.
>
> So now we are looking to do a forklift upgrade to 3.7.x and add 
> Arbiter box(s) into the new setup (i.e  replica 2 + arbiter)
>
> Can we get away with using some older machines from the bone pile (i.e 
> core2 cpu 2/4GB) or should we be using proper server kit?
> Would SSDs on the arbiter help or are they even necessary?

Not an authoritative answer but I think it should be manageable.  I 
don't think SSDs for arbiter alone (and not the other 2 bricks of the 
replica) would improve performance in any way because we don't do read() 
or write() on the files of the arbiter brick.

Another option would be to reserve a brick on the existing  nodes itself 
when creating a volume. (Sorry, converting an existing replica 2 volume 
to arbiter is not yet supported but is on the cards.)

-Ravi
>
> Note: we are still using 1G (jumbo mtu) networking as the 10G stuff 
> hasn't trickled down to our group yet <grin>. That is why we are 
> mostly interested in using Arbiter rather than a true replica 3 
> environment.
>
> -wk
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