Gluster users - Nov 2010 - Tiered storage/hierarchical storage with gluster?

Hi, 

Would it be possible to create a tiered storage/HS with gluster as described in
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hierarchical_storage_management:

"In a typical HSM scenario, data files which are frequently used are stored
on disk drives, but are eventually migrated to tape if they are not used for a
certain period of time, typically a few months. If a user does reuse a file
which is on tape, it is automatically moved back to disk storage. The advantage
is that the total amount of stored data can be much larger than the capacity of
the disk storage available, but since only rarely-used files are on tape, most
users will usually not notice any slowdown."

I have some boxes connected with gigabit but also some storage on boxes only
running 100 Mbit and would like to "mark" the slower boxes as
secondary storage. Clients would access through the gigabit machines.

regards, 
:-Dennis Schafroth

Dennis -
    Not at this point. HSM is a long term goal, it won't happen soon. If 
the 100Mbit machines have less available disk space they will do less 
I/O than the bigger machines, maybe that helps?


Thanks,

Craig

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Craig Carl
Senior Systems Engineer
Gluster

On 11/16/2010 02:12 PM, Dennis Schafroth wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Would it be possible to create a tiered storage/HS with gluster as
described in http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hierarchical_storage_management:
>
> "In a typical HSM scenario, data files which are frequently used are
stored on disk drives, but are eventually migrated to tape if they are not used
for a certain period of time, typically a few months. If a user does reuse a
file which is on tape, it is automatically moved back to disk storage. The
advantage is that the total amount of stored data can be much larger than the
capacity of the disk storage available, but since only rarely-used files are on
tape, most users will usually not notice any slowdown."
>
> I have some boxes connected with gigabit but also some storage on boxes
only running 100 Mbit and would like to "mark" the slower boxes as
secondary storage. Clients would access through the gigabit machines.
>
> regards,
> :-Dennis Schafroth
>
>
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