[Gluster-users] Floating IPv6 in a cluster (as NFS-Ganesha VIP)

Soumya Koduri skoduri at redhat.com
Wed May 31 11:03:20 UTC 2017


+Andrew and Ken

On 05/29/2017 11:48 PM, Jan wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I love this project, Gluster and Ganesha are amazing. Thank you for this
> great work!
>
> The only thing that I miss is IPv6 support. I know that there are some
> challenges and that’s OK. For me it’s not important whether Gluster
> servers use IPv4 or IPv6 to speak each other and replicate data.
>
> The only thing that I’d like to have is a floating IPv6 for clients when
> I use Ganesha (just IPv6, dual stack isn’t needed).
>
> I tested it and I put IPv6 into ganesha-ha.conf instead of IPv4 and it
> didn’t work. But I think that it might work since Ganesha supports IPv6:
>
> netstat -plnt
>
> tcp6   0    0 :::2049    :::*  LISTEN  1856/ganesha.nfsd
>
> Is there a way how to do that? Maybe build a cluster with IPv4 and then
> change “something” in Pacemaker / Corosync and replace IPv4 by IPv6?
>

At-least from [1] looks like it is supported. Do you see any 
errors/warnings in the log files? (/var/log/messages, 
/var/log/pacemaker.log, /var/log/corosync.log)


[1] https://www.systutorials.com/docs/linux/man/7-ocf_heartbeat_IPaddr2/

> Thank you.
>
> Best regards,
>
> Jan
>
>
>
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