Hi, I'm just setting up some storage for use with oVirt and am wondering why I might choose glusterfs rather than just exporting a raid array as iscsi. The oVirt team seem to be pushing gluster (though that could just be because it's a Red Hat product). Can anyone answer this one?
What I have come up with is as follows. For: - easy to expand - redundancy across storage devices/easy replication - high availablility - performance - it's kind of cool :) - maintenance? Against (these are guesses): - performance? (multiple layers of filesystems everywhere - fs in vm + image on gluster + gluster + block filesystem) - complexity - maintenance? Any help here is appreciated. Also, does the underlying block level filesystem matter here? VMs running under ovirt would be typical business applications - file serving (samba4), email, databases, web servers, etc. Cheers, Justin.
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