[Gluster-users] GlusterFS Multitenancy -- supports multi-tenancy by partitioning users or groups into logical volumes on shared storage

[Pranith Kumar Karampuri]

On Fri, Mar 3, 2017 at 5:08 AM, Deepak Naidu <dnaidu at nvidia.com> wrote:

> Hello,
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> I have been reading the below statement in GlusterFS docs & articles
> regarding multi-tenancy. Is this statement related to virtual environment
> ie VM’s. How valid is “partitioning users or groups into logical volumes”.
> Can someone explain what it really means.
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> Is it that I can associate a user/group(UID/GID) like NFS to a glusterFS
> volumes ?
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> https://gluster.readthedocs.io/en/latest/Administrator%20Guide/GlusterFS%
> 20Introduction/
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> GlusterFS. It supports multi-tenancy by partitioning users or groups into
> logical volumes on shared storage.
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> My though was I can do multi-tenancy at volume level as below.
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> ·         Create a distributed volume named data1 for tenant1 from
> StorageNode1-5 using Disk1(raided) using NIC-1 network
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> ·         Similarly create distributed volume named data2 for tenant2
> from StorageNode1-5 using Disk2(raided) using NIC-2 network
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I think you are creating a separate volume for each tenant here, so it is
not multi-tenancy right? You have one volume per one tenant. Idea of
multi-tenancy is to have multiple tenants on same volume. May be I didn't
understand your idea completely.


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> Is my understanding correct ? How is the user/group come into picture.
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> Deepak
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