Gluster users - Oct 2010 - gluster and rocks?

Is anyone using Gluster with the Rocks cluster system?  If so, do you
know if there is a Roll for Gluster?  Or, do you have any advice about
things to do and things to avoid doing?

We're considering using Gluster with Infiniband on our cluster and
trying to learn whether other people have done this so we can perhaps
learn from their experience.

Thanks.

.. Lana (lana.deere at gmail.com)

Lana,
We at Colorado School of Mines are testing Gluster on our 268 node cluster that
is running Rocks with Infiniband. There is no Roll for it, but the RPMs install
fine when you put them in an extend-compute.xml file. We did have to recompile
from source RPMs on Rocks 4.x, but now that we've moved to Rocks 5.x they
install fine. The only hangup we had with IB was that we had to manually load
some userspace IB modules on our front end (ib_umad, ib_uverbs, etc.). We have
hit a couple of bugs with the 3.1 beta code, but we're getting them worked
out. I found it very easy to setup a test deployment and encourage you to give
it a try. It is much easier to setup than Lustre which is what we're using
in production right now, but it doesn't have all the features. If it meets
your needs though then it is probably a much better solution for small to medium
sites.

Good Luck,
Mike Robbert

On Oct 9, 2010, at 12:45 AM, Lana Deere wrote:
> Is anyone using Gluster with the Rocks cluster system?  If so, do you
> know if there is a Roll for Gluster?  Or, do you have any advice about
> things to do and things to avoid doing?
> 
> We're considering using Gluster with Infiniband on our cluster and
> trying to learn whether other people have done this so we can perhaps
> learn from their experience.
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> .. Lana (lana.deere at gmail.com)
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On Sat, Oct 9, 2010 at 12:45 AM, Lana Deere <lana.deere at gmail.com>
wrote:
> Is anyone using Gluster with the Rocks cluster system?  If so, do you
> know if there is a Roll for Gluster?  Or, do you have any advice about
> things to do and things to avoid doing?
>
> We're considering using Gluster with Infiniband on our cluster and
> trying to learn whether other people have done this so we can perhaps
> learn from their experience.
>
>
Comments welcome:

http://sysextra.blogspot.com/2010/10/how-to-create-gluster-roll-for-rocks.html

This is for 3.0.5 - when I get around to deploying 3.1, I'll do another
post.


   --joey








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>
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