Gluster users - Nov 2010 - Shared storage for KVM

Hello, 

I'm looking at Gluster for a possible solution for storing VM images for a
KVM cluster on Ubuntu. I would like to set it up as a RAID 1+0 setup across
multiple servers.

How is Gluster performance as backend storage for KVM (or even Xen for that
matter)?

Is it difficult to add additional nodes and re-balance the storage if I need
additional storage growth?

Thanks, 
Kris

Hi,

On 23.11.2010, at 18:41, Kristofer Pettijohn wrote:
> Would you be willing to share what your configs look like for this set up?
There are no configs. We use Gluster 3.1 and simply did "gluster volume
create brick1:/bla brick2:/bla brick3:/bla"
Then some settings for auth.allow 

That was it.

I do not understand how one can change config files in 3.1 such that the cluster
(i.e. bricks) get notified about it. Everything should be automatic, but our
experiments show that none of this is true.
The gluster command itself does not allow for very much tuning and/or setting of
parameters.

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