Gluster users - Apr 2011 - ESXi & Gluster setup options

All,

 

   We are in the process of determining a virtualized infrastructure and
wanted to hear from

current users of Gluster and VMWare. What we were looking to setup was
an HA ESXi cluster

(2 heads) with gluster backend (4 bricks to start,
replicated/distributed), all backend connectivity

would be 10Gbe. Mainly the storage would be for VM images but may
include NAS files later.

So our questions are...

 

Has someone setup something similar?

 

What did the layout look like?

 

How was performance?

 

Drives used in bricks(SATA / SAS)?

 

Experiences / Ideas?

 

Thanks,

 

Troy

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Troy,

Yes it would work, you can setup 4 servers in a distributed replicated
setup acting as NFS data store for VMWare. If any one of the storage
node goes down it will not be seen by the ESX hosts. Many users use
this type of config for storage HA for NFS datastores.

You can use SATA or SAS.

Since you are using 10gb performance should not be a problem. Backend
disks would be the bottleneck and hence you should experiment with a
good raid setup to get maximum backend disk throughput.

On Thu, Apr 21, 2011 at 9:54 PM, Troy Swaine <troy.swaine at onforce.com>
wrote:
> All,
>
>
>
> ?? We are in the process of determining a virtualized infrastructure and
> wanted to hear from
>
> current users of Gluster and VMWare. What we were looking to setup was an
HA
> ESXi cluster
>
> (2 heads) with gluster backend (4 bricks to start, replicated/distributed),
> all backend connectivity
>
> would be 10Gbe. Mainly the storage would be for VM images but may include
> NAS files later.
>
> So our questions are?
>
>
>
> Has someone setup something similar?
>
>
>
> What did the layout look like?
>
>
>
> How was performance?
>
>
>
> Drives used in bricks(SATA / SAS)?
>
>
>
> Experiences / Ideas?
>
>
>
> Thanks,
>
>
>
> Troy
>
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