[Gluster-users] Arbiter node as VM

[Gambit15]

As long as the VM isn't hosted on one of the two Gluster nodes, that's
perfectly fine. One of my smaller clusters uses the same setup.

As for your other questions, as long as it supports Unix file permissions,
Gluster doesn't care what filesystem you use. Mix & match as you wish. Just
try to keep matching Gluster versions across your nodes.


On 29 June 2017 at 16:10, mabi <mabi at protonmail.ch> wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I have a replica 2 GlusterFS 3.8.11 cluster on 2 Debian 8 physical servers
> using ZFS as filesystem. Now in order to avoid a split-brain situation I
> would like to add a third node as arbiter.
>
> Regarding the arbiter node I have a few questions:
> - can the arbiter node be a virtual machine? (I am planning to use Xen as
> hypervisor)
> - can I use ext4 as file system on my arbiter? or does it need to be ZFS
> as the two other nodes?
> - or should I use here XFS with LVM this provisioning as mentioned in the
> - is it OK that my arbiter runs Debian 9 (Linux kernel v4) and my other
> two nodes run Debian 8 (kernel v3)?
> - what about thin provisioning of my volume on the arbiter node (
> https://gluster.readthedocs.io/en/latest/Administrator%
> 20Guide/Setting%20Up%20Volumes/) is this required? on my two other nodes
> I do not use any thin provisioning neither LVM but simply ZFS.
>
> Thanks in advance for your input.
>
> Best regards,
> Mabi
>
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