[Gluster-users] Setting up volume for virtualization

[Cristian Del Carlo]

Thanks for the reply,

I'll do some tests of the suggested configuration.

Best Regards,

Il giorno ven 6 set 2019 alle ore 20:31 Strahil Nikolov <
hunter86_bg at yahoo.com> ha scritto:

> Both are bad. Why -> you have an "even" number of replicas and this can
> cause  split brain situation.
> I would recommend you to consider this approach:
>
> Server A - Replica_A1
> Server B - Replica_A2,Arbiter_B
> Server C - Arbiter_A,Replica_B1
> Server D - Replica_B2
>
> As the arbiter doesn't require much resources, you can use it safely.
> The negative side of such deployment - you have 2 separate volumes which
> you have to manually balance the VM's images so both Volumes keep the same
> level of load.
>
>
> Still, this is my own opinion and it might be a better solution.
>
> Best Regards,
> Strahil Nikolov
>
> В петък, 6 септември 2019 г., 12:54:48 ч. Гринуич+3, Cristian Del Carlo <
> cristian.delcarlo at targetsolutions.it> написа:
>
>
> Hi,
>
> I have an environment consisting of 4 nodes ( with large disks).
> I have to create a volume to contain image of virtual machines.
>
> Is it better to set a Distributed Replicated Volumes like this?
>
> # gluster volume create test-volume replica 2 transport tcp server1:/exp1
> server2:/exp2 server3:/exp3 server4:/exp4
>
> Or a Replicated Volumes like this?
>
> # gluster volume create test-volume replica 4 transport tcp server1:/exp1
> server2:/exp2 server3:/exp3 server4:/exp4
>
> Thanks,
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>
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