[Gluster-users] Production cluster planning

Tue Sep 20 09:54:20 UTC 2016

2016-09-20 10:28 GMT+02:00 Pranith Kumar Karampuri <pkarampu at redhat.com>:
> Are you willing to take VM snapshots at the right times?

Yes, sure.

In addition, the same cluster would also be used to store files shared
between webservers, like the uploaded images and so on.

> Please don't use EC for Random write workload, it is better for extending
> write workload at the moment. Replica 3/Arbiter is what I would suggest.

With replica 3/arbiter do you mean 3 hosts in replica plus an arbitrer
or 2 hosts in replica plus an arbiter?