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Steven Jones

2011-Nov-28 21:07 UTC

[Gluster-users] setting up a "server"

Hi,

I have the install guide and the admin guide....nothing in either that I can see
from the contents pages tells me how to create the first "server" ( I
assume that is what I have to do?)

Is there another doc Im missing? or a good URL for a howto on a redhat based
machine?

Also from what I can see the "free" version is cli only?

and there is no virtual (vmware) appliance?


regards

Steven Jones

Technical Specialist - Linux RHCE

Victoria University, Wellington, NZ

0064 4 463 6272

Thomas Jackson

2011-Nov-28 21:17 UTC

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[Gluster-users] setting up a "server"

Hi Steven,

Extract from our internal wiki (this is for Debian based machines, so you
would need to swap a few of the commands around for Red Hat):

On all machines in the cluster:
	Check that they have entries for each other in /etc/hosts

Execute on all machines in the cluster:
	dpkg -i <most_recent_stable_version>
	/etc/init.d/glusterd start

On ONE HOST ONLY (doesn't matter which), execute the following commands to
build a distribute/replicate volume:
	gluster peer probe <host name of other box - repeat this command for
each box in the cluster other than the one executing the commands>
	gluster volume create test-volume replica 2 transport tcp
host1-dns-name:/mnt/physical-storage host1-dns-name:/mnt/physical-storage
	gluster volume start test-volume

On the hosts that you want to mount the volume on:
	mkdir /mnt/gluster
	mount -t glusterfs localhost:/test-volume /mnt/gluster-volume/

Cheers,

Thomas

-----Original Message-----
From: gluster-users-bounces at gluster.org
[mailto:gluster-users-bounces at gluster.org] On Behalf Of Steven Jones
Sent: Tuesday, 29 November 2011 8:07 AM
To: gluster-users at gluster.org
Subject: [Gluster-users] setting up a "server"

Hi,

I have the install guide and the admin guide....nothing in either that I can
see from the contents pages tells me how to create the first "server"
( I
assume that is what I have to do?)

Is there another doc Im missing? or a good URL for a howto on a redhat based
machine?

Also from what I can see the "free" version is cli only?

and there is no virtual (vmware) appliance?


regards

Steven Jones

Technical Specialist - Linux RHCE

Victoria University, Wellington, NZ

0064 4 463 6272
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Harry Mangalam

2011-Nov-28 21:17 UTC

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See Chapter 6 of the Admin guide:

6. Setting Up GlusterFS Server Volumes

This assumes you've dedicated servers to be gluster bricks.  If not, 
that's obviously 1st.  Then install the gluster software, then on to 
chapter 6.

hjm




On Monday 28 November 2011 13:07:07 Steven Jones wrote:> Hi,
> 
> I have the install guide and the admin guide....nothing in either
> that I can see from the contents pages tells me how to create the
> first "server" ( I assume that is what I have to do?)
> 
> Is there another doc Im missing? or a good URL for a howto on a
> redhat based machine?
> 
> Also from what I can see the "free" version is cli only?
> 
> and there is no virtual (vmware) appliance?
> 
> 
> regards
> 
> Steven Jones
> 
> Technical Specialist - Linux RHCE
> 
> Victoria University, Wellington, NZ
> 
> 0064 4 463 6272
> _______________________________________________
> Gluster-users mailing list
> Gluster-users at gluster.org
> http://gluster.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gluster-users
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Olivier

2011-Dec-01 04:29 UTC

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/etc/gluster contains all the node ID brick ID, etc used by Gluster. 

Olivier

-------- Original Message --------> From: "Steven Jones" <Steven.Jones at vuw.ac.nz>
> Sent: Thursday, December 01, 2011 10:00 AM
> To: "gluster-users at gluster.org" <gluster-users at
gluster.org>
> Subject: Re: [Gluster-users] setting up a "server"
> 
> Hi,
> this time I deleted the /etc/gluster/* directories on ALL node,s yum removed and yum installed, now they seem to work.  Something in the 
/etc/gluster contents maybe.> 
> regards
> 
> Steven Jones
> 
> Technical Specialist - Linux RHCE
> 
> Victoria University, Wellington, NZ
> 
> 0064 4 463 6272
> 
> ________________________________________
> From: gluster-users-bounces at gluster.org [gluster-users-bounces at gluster.org] on behalf of Steven Jones 
[Steven.Jones at vuw.ac.nz]> Sent: Thursday, 1 December 2011 3:10 p.m.
> To: gluster-users at gluster.org
> Subject: Re: [Gluster-users] setting up a "server"
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I yum removed the gluster-core packages and re-installed...Ive done this 
on all nodes.....> 
> No change...
> 
> 
> regards
> 
> Steven Jones
> 
> Technical Specialist - Linux RHCE
> 
> Victoria University, Wellington, NZ
> 
> 0064 4 463 6272
> 
> ________________________________________
> From: Thomas Jackson [thomas at thomax.com.au]
> Sent: Thursday, 1 December 2011 3:03 p.m.
> To: Steven Jones; gluster-users at gluster.org
> Subject: RE: [Gluster-users] setting up a "server"
> 
> Make sure you restart the service after deleting the files
> 
> You may need to mkdir /etc/glusterfs and /etc/glusterd (been a while 
since I> had to totally torch an install).
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Steven Jones [mailto:Steven.Jones at vuw.ac.nz]
> Sent: Thursday, 1 December 2011 12:42 PM
> To: Thomas Jackson; gluster-users at gluster.org
> Subject: RE: [Gluster-users] setting up a "server"
> 
> deleting the /etc/gluster* directories seems to have been a bad idea.
> 
> 
> regards
> 
> Steven Jones
> 
> Technical Specialist - Linux RHCE
> 
> Victoria University, Wellington, NZ
> 
> 0064 4 463 6272
> 
> ________________________________________
> From: gluster-users-bounces at gluster.org 
[gluster-users-bounces at gluster.org]> on behalf of Steven Jones [Steven.Jones at vuw.ac.nz]
> Sent: Thursday, 1 December 2011 2:39 p.m.
> To: Thomas Jackson; gluster-users at gluster.org
> Subject: Re: [Gluster-users] setting up a "server"
> 
> Hi,
> 
> Not working for me....
> 
> I was able to detach 2 and 3 locally, but there is no no1......trying 
peer> probe just times out, I turned off the iptables firewall, no 
difference...> 
> regards
> 
> Steven Jones
> 
> Technical Specialist - Linux RHCE
> 
> Victoria University, Wellington, NZ
> 
> 0064 4 463 6272
> 
> ________________________________________
> From: gluster-users-bounces at gluster.org 
[gluster-users-bounces at gluster.org]> on behalf of Thomas Jackson [thomas at thomax.com.au]
> Sent: Thursday, 1 December 2011 10:35 a.m.
> To: gluster-users at gluster.org
> Subject: Re: [Gluster-users] setting up a "server"
> 
> Originally sent this straight to Steven by accident, resent to list in 
case> it helps anyone else
> 
> 
> 
> Try on each node:
> 
> gluster peer status - get what gluster thinks is the hostname from this
> gluster peer detach <peer name that you got from above>
> 
> Then try the original instructions again. Note that you should NOT do a 
peer> probe to point to the local host, and you should only do the peer probe 
from> one server (the others will all sync together when it is done from the 
first> server).
> 
> For example, on one of my clusters (4 nodes):
>         root at node1:~# gluster peer probe node2
>         root at node1:~# gluster peer probe node3
>         root at node1:~# gluster peer probe node4
>         root at node1:~# gluster peer status
>         Number of Peers: 3
> 
>         Hostname: node2
>         Uuid: <uuid in here>
>         State: Peer in Cluster (Connected)
> 
>         Hostname: node3
>         Uuid: <uuid in here>
>         State: Peer in Cluster (Connected)
> 
>         Hostname: node4
>         Uuid: <uuid in here>
>         State: Peer in Cluster (Connected)
> 
> If all else fails, delete the /etc/gluster* directories, restart gluster 
and> it should re-create them as you do the commands again.
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: gluster-users-bounces at gluster.org
> [mailto:gluster-users-bounces at gluster.org] On Behalf Of Steven Jones
> Sent: Thursday, 1 December 2011 6:36 AM
> To: gluster-users at gluster.org
> Subject: Re: [Gluster-users] setting up a "server"
> 
> Hi,
> 
> So no one knows how to fix this I assume?
> 
> regards
> 
> Steven Jones
> 
> Technical Specialist - Linux RHCE
> 
> Victoria University, Wellington, NZ
> 
> 0064 4 463 6272
> 
> ________________________________________
> From: gluster-users-bounces at gluster.org 
[gluster-users-bounces at gluster.org]> on behalf of Steven Jones [Steven.Jones at vuw.ac.nz]
> Sent: Wednesday, 30 November 2011 1:19 p.m.
> To: gluster-users at gluster.org
> Subject: Re: [Gluster-users] setting up a "server"
> 
> On my initial node I get,
> 
> =========> [root at vuwunicoglstr01 ~]# gluster peer status Number of
Peers: 1
> 
> Hostname: vuwunicoglstr01
> Uuid: 00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000
> State: Establishing Connection (Disconnected)
> [root at vuwunicoglstr01 ~]#
> =========> 
> I assume it should be "connected"  how do I get it to connect?
> 
> 
> regards
> 
> Steven Jones
> 
> Technical Specialist - Linux RHCE
> 
> Victoria University, Wellington, NZ
> 
> 0064 4 463 6272
> 
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