[Gluster-users] GlusterFS as virtual machine storage

[lemonnierk at ulrar.net]

Solved as to 3.7.12. The only bug left is when adding new bricks to
create a new replica set, now sure where we are now on that bug but
that's not a common operation (well, at least for me).

On Wed, Aug 30, 2017 at 05:07:44PM +0200, Ivan Rossi wrote:
> There has ben a bug associated to sharding that led to VM corruption that
> has been around for a long time (difficult to reproduce I understood). I
> have not seen reports on that for some time after the last fix, so
> hopefully now VM hosting is stable.
> 
> 2017-08-30 3:57 GMT+02:00 Everton Brogliatto <brogliatto at gmail.com>:
> 
> > Ciao Gionatan,
> >
> > I run Gluster 3.10.x (Replica 3 arbiter or 2 + 1 arbiter) to provide
> > storage for oVirt 4.x and I have had no major issues so far.
> > I have done online upgrades a couple of times, power losses, maintenance,
> > etc with no issues. Overall, it is very resilient.
> >
> > Important thing to keep in mind is your network, I run the Gluster nodes
> > on a redundant network using bonding mode 1 and I have performed
> > maintenance on my switches, bringing one of them off-line at a time without
> > causing problems in my Gluster setup or in my running VMs.
> > Gluster recommendation is to enable jumbo frames across the
> > subnet/servers/switches you use for Gluster operations. Your switches must
> > support MTU 9000 + 208 at least.
> >
> > There were two occasions where I purposely caused a split brain situation
> > and I was able to heal the files manually.
> >
> > Volume performance tuning can make a significant difference in Gluster. As
> > others have mentioned previously, sharding is recommended when running VMs
> > as it will split big files in smaller pieces, making it easier for the
> > healing to occur.
> > When you enable sharding, the default sharding block size is 4MB which
> > will significantly reduce your writing speeds. oVirt recommends the shard
> > block size to be 512MB.
> > The volume options you are looking here are:
> > features.shard on
> > features.shard-block-size 512MB
> >
> > I had an experimental setup in replica 2 using an older version of Gluster
> > few years ago and it was unstable, corrupt data and crashed many times. Do
> > not use replica 2. As others have already said, minimum is replica 2+1
> > arbiter.
> >
> > If you have any questions that I perhaps can help with, drop me an email.
> >
> >
> > Regards,
> > Everton Brogliatto
> >
> >
> > On Sat, Aug 26, 2017 at 1:40 PM, Gionatan Danti <g.danti at assyoma.it>
> > wrote:
> >
> >> Il 26-08-2017 07:38 Gionatan Danti ha scritto:
> >>
> >>> I'll surely give a look at the documentation. I have the "bad" habit
> >>> of not putting into production anything I know how to repair/cope
> >>> with.
> >>>
> >>> Thanks.
> >>>
> >>
> >> Mmmm, this should read as:
> >>
> >> "I have the "bad" habit of not putting into production anything I do NOT
> >> know how to repair/cope with"
> >>
> >> Really :D
> >>
> >>
> >> Thanks.
> >>
> >> --
> >> Danti Gionatan
> >> Supporto Tecnico
> >> Assyoma S.r.l. - www.assyoma.it
> >> email: g.danti at assyoma.it - info at assyoma.it
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