On Thu, Oct 31, 2013 at 4:54 AM, trifo <[email protected]> wrote: > I am running a web site using Apache httpd on several server nodes to > provide high availability and performance. At present, the web content > resides on a clustered filesystem (GPFS) to ensure that all the nodes serve > the same content in any moment. > > Well, GPFS is quite an expensive product, thus the management tries to get > rid of it. Now my question is this: how to build a high performance > environement without a clustered filesystem? Where to store the html files, > and how to ensure the consistency between nodes? >
We have a number of webservers running on ZFS. According to what I could find about GPFS, VFS looks like a decent replacement, but YMMV. - Y
