Alexander Sandström Krantz
2011-Feb-05 21:35 UTC
[Gluster-users] Best practice when having several physical disks per server
Hi, I've been browsing the mailing list archive but haven't really managed to find any good answer to my below question, which I find a bit strange as my situation must be very common. So apologies if there is an answer to be found somewhere already. I'm thinking about using Gluster for scalability and redundancy purposes in a configuration involving several servers, with several physical disks in each server. I've been playing around with the Gluster Storage Platform, and I understand that each disk ends up as a separate server. I.e. if I have 2 servers, with 2 disks each, I will see 4 "servers" in the server manager. This makes me a bit worried that the replication might actually end up putting the two file copies on the same server. Especially as it is possible to set up a volume, in mirror mode, selecting two "servers" which are actually just two different disks on the same physical server. How do I ensure that file replication is server aware, i.e. that it never puts the two file copies on the same server? Is that even possible to do with the Gluster Storage Platform? Thanks! Alexander