[Gluster-users] GlusterFS absolute max. storage size in total?

Peter B. pb at das-werkstatt.com
Thu Apr 20 07:02:44 UTC 2017


Thanks Amar and Mohamed!

My question was mainly aiming at things like programmatical limitations.
We're already running 2 Gluster-Clusters with 4 nodes each.
3 bricks = 100 TB/node = 400 TB total.

So with Gluster 3.x it's 8PB, possibly more with Gluster 4.x.

Right?


Thank you very much again!
Peter B.



On 04/20/2017 06:31 AM, Mohamed Pakkeer wrote:
> Hi Amar,
>
> Currently, we are running 40 node cluster and each node has
> 36*6TB(210TB).As of now we don't face any issue with read and write
> performance  except folder listing and disk failure healing. Planning to
> start another cluster with 36*10TB(360)per node. What kind of problem will
> we face if we go with 36*10(360)per node. Planned 360TB per node is far
> from recommended 64TB. We are using Glusterfs with disperse volume for
> video archival.
>
> Regards
> K. Mohamed Pakkeer
>
> On 20-Apr-2017 9:00 AM, "Amar Tumballi" <atumball at redhat.com> wrote:
>
>> On Wed, 19 Apr 2017 at 11:07 PM, Peter B. <pb at das-werkstatt.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Hello,
>>>
>>> Could you tell me what the technically maximum limit of capacity of a
>>> GlusterFS storage is?
>>> I cannot find any official statement on this...
>>>
>>> Somewhere it says "several Petabytes", but that's a bit vague.
>>
>> It is mostly vague because the total storage depends on 2 things, what is
>> per node storage you can get, and then how many nodes you have in cluster?
>>
>> It is scalable comfortably for 128nodes, and per node you can have 64TB
>> drives, making it 8PB.
>>
>>
>>
>>> I'd need it for arguing pro GlusterFS in comparison to other systems.
>>
>> Hope the above info helps you. Btw, we are targeting more scalability
>> related improvements in Gluster 4.0, so it should be much larger number
>> from next year.
>>
>> -Amar
>>
>>
>>
>>> Thank you very much in advance,
>>> Peter B.
>>>
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