I have deployed a HCI environment several times now as I wanted to get some
idea of disk performance with Gluster/

 

On a Dell R720 3 node cluster with H710 PERC controller and 8 x 2TB 7200 RPM
SATA drives.

 

My first test was with the 8 drives configured as H/W RAID 6 and I
configured Gluster as RAID 6 - quite a lot of redundancy but that was just
my first deployment

 

Running IOMeter for 24 hours using all in one access specification I got 240
IOPs.  Pretty good for SATA drives.

 

I then broke the RAID and configured 8 virtual disks, one per physical and
then deployed Gluster as JBOD - I am not sure how resilient that is, but I
assume in a 3 node cluster failures to tolerate would be one.

 

This gave me 267 IOPs.

 

I don't know that much about the internals of Gluster, but when I first
asked about this there didn't seem to be much knowledge of what
configuration would be best for HCI.  I plan to do more research and tests
on this, but for what its worth for now, I am going down the JBOD route with
no H/W RAID.

 

Regards

Bill

 

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