Hi,
On 01.06.2013 03:09, Brendon Colby wrote:
On Wed, May 29, 2013 at 6:46 AM, joris dedieu <[email protected]>
wrote:
Hi Syd,
I'm guessing an an NFS share from the 2 webservers to the 1
fileserver. However, from a bit of research with load balanced
magento setups there seems to be a lot of negative comments about
using NFS in this way.
It's always better to avoid NFS as it introduce a point of failure.
It isn't always better. We have several TB of heavily accessed static
media files being served to our web servers over NFS. I don't think we
could do this another way viably.
If the NFS server is built with redundant power, ECC memory, RAID and
is connected to a UPS, I wouldn't be too worried about using NFS as
long as the hardware is properly chosen to accommodate the workload
and the OS and NFS are set up correctly.
I can certainly agree with this. We have a couple of 100TB's which are
served using multiple NFS shares. If the NFS server is chosen wisely,
then there's no problem. You can use 2 NFS servers with a dual
controller SAS shelf underneath if you're woried about the NFS server
failing.
I'm almost scared to say this, but we never had a failure due to our
NFS servers being unavailable or being swamped with requests. So I also
think it's a very viable option. You just had to think things through a
bit.
Greets,
Sander
