Thanks for your response. My actual need here is to familiarize myself with
Gluster...
This is really a lab project for me to try and get as much experience with
GlusterFS as I can to see what use it might be.
I've done some thinking and I am going to use the two hosts with 146GB disks
in for my oVirt cluster now.
So I am using the 2 x Dell 2950s with 6 x 300GB disks in each for my Gluster.
So my needs now would be that I want as much storage - but able to lose a disk
and not lose data, so not RAID 0.
So could you tell me if there are advantages or disadvantages to creating a
RAID5 out of the 6 x 300 GB disks on each 2950 server and then allocate whatever
is left after loading the operating system and Gluster as a brick? Or not
create RAID and use each disk as brick. I expect creating the RAID as the Dell
Perc controller is pretty efficient would be better than software defined RAID -
for performance anyway?
Thanks again, I really appreciate the advice.
Bill
From: gluster-users-bounces at gluster.org [mailto:gluster-users-bounces at
gluster.org] On Behalf Of Joe Julian
Sent: 03 April 2015 12:30
To: gluster-users at gluster.org
Subject: Re: [Gluster-users] newbie quick question
imho, start by defining your needs then design the system to meet them. The only
goal set out below is that you, "want to get as much storage out of these
as possible." This would mean raid0 or 1 brick per disk with a distribute
array (no replication).
Identically sized bricks are best. Often if the disk sizes are mixed, raid or
partitioning are used to create bricks of the same size.
On 04/03/2015 09:36 AM, Bill Dossett wrote:
Hi, this is my first attempt at Gluster storage.
Just a quick help me get started question - the bare metal page yields a
"not found" on the web site so...
I have two dell 2950s fully populated with 5 x 300GB 10K disks.
I want to get as much storage out of these as possible.
I have two more dell 2950s each with 4 x 146GB 10K disks.
Should I build one RAID 5 container on the first two servers, load up CentOS7
and then Gluster on that? using the unused partition of what is left after
loading CentOS?
Or should I be looking at moving physical disks around and putting the smaller
146 GB disks as RAID 1 in each of the 4 servers for OS and distributing the
300GB disks amoung all the servers and maybe pick some more up on Ebay to get
all 4 servers identical?
Would appreciate any advice on short notice as I have nothing else to do today
for once and would just as soon at least start off on the right foot!
Bill Dossett
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