[Gluster-users] Gluster setup for virtualization cluster

2020-02-16 Thread Markus Kern
Greetings! I am currently evaluating our options to replace our old mixture of IBM SAN storage boxes. This will be a strategic decision for the next years. One of the solutions I am reviewing is a GlusterFS installation. Planned usage: - Central NFS server for around 25 systems providing

Re: [Gluster-users] To RAID or not to RAID...

2020-01-14 Thread Markus Kern
biter. Best Regards, Strahil Nikolov On Jan 14, 2020 13:36, Markus Kern wrote: Greetings again! After reading RedHat documentation regarding optimizing Gluster storage another question comes to my mind: Let's presume that I want to go the distributed dispersed volume way. Three nodes which tw

[Gluster-users] To RAID or not to RAID...

2020-01-14 Thread Markus Kern
Greetings again! After reading RedHat documentation regarding optimizing Gluster storage another question comes to my mind: Let's presume that I want to go the distributed dispersed volume way. Three nodes which two bricks each. According to RedHat's recommendation, I should use RAID6 as

[Gluster-users] Expanding distributed dispersed volumes

2020-01-14 Thread Markus Kern
Greetings! I am unsure if I understood that volume properly - or, to be more specific, I am unsure how to increase available storage there properly. Say I have three servers with two bricks on each server, providing one volume. Free space gets low in that volume and I want to expand it.