Gluster users - Oct 2013 - Options to turn off/on for reliable virtual machinewrites & write performance

In a replicated cluster, the client writes to all replicas at the same time. 
This is likely while you are only getting half the speed for writes as its going
to two servers and therefore maxing your gigabit network.  That is, unless I am
misunderstanding how you are measuring the 60MB/s write speed.

I don't have any advice on the other bits...sorry.

Todd

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From: "RedShift" <redshift at telenet.be>
Sent: ?10/?6/?2013 12:41 AM
To: "Gluster-users at gluster.org" <gluster-users at
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Subject: [Gluster-users] Options to turn off/on for reliable virtual
machinewrites & write performance

Hi all, I'm building a cluster to host virtual machines to ESXi hosts (using
NFS). The point of the cluster is that it should survive an unclean node death
(test scenario by hard removing disks or cutting power, etc...), by which I need
to make sure all writes are completed on both nodes before gluster returns the
operation as completed. For now, I have this:


gluster> volume info ha-ds1 
Volume Name: ha-ds1 
Type: Replicate 
Volume ID: da2fb668-2f3e-4839-a5da-4a51d5fcba05 
Status: Started 
Number of Bricks: 1 x 2 = 2 
Transport-type: tcp 
Bricks: 
Brick1: 10.255.255.1:/vol/gluster/ha-ds1 
Brick2: 10.255.255.2:/vol/gluster/ha-ds1 
Options Reconfigured: 
cluster.self-heal-daemon: on 
performance.flush-behind: Off 
network.frame-timeout: 30 
network.ping-timeout: 15 
cluster.heal-timeout: 300 
gluster> volume status all detail 
Status of volume: ha-ds1 
------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 
Brick : Brick 10.255.255.1:/vol/gluster/ha-ds1 
Port : 49153 
Online : Y 
Pid : 2252 
File System : ext4 
Device : /dev/mapper/stor--node1-gluster 
Mount Options :
rw,noatime,nodiratime,journal_checksum,data=journal,errors=panic,nodelalloc
Inode Size : 256 
Disk Space Free : 219.3GB 
Total Disk Space : 269.1GB 
Inode Count : 17924096 
Free Inodes : 17923263 
------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 
Brick : Brick 10.255.255.2:/vol/gluster/ha-ds1 
Port : 49152 
Online : Y 
Pid : 2319 
File System : ext4 
Device : /dev/mapper/stor--node2-gluster 
Mount Options :
rw,noatime,nodiratime,journal_checksum,data=journal,errors=panic,nodelalloc
Inode Size : 256 
Disk Space Free : 221.3GB 
Total Disk Space : 269.1GB 
Inode Count : 17924096 
Free Inodes : 17923162 
gluster> 


(I would also like to grab your attention to the mount options - are those OK or
can I do better?)


Is this enough to garantuee a proper cluster failover (data is consistent at all
times) to the second node without interruption to the virtual machines? In my
testing it appears to be, but I want to make sure - maybe someone else has
something to add or something to look out for?


Second, I'd like to improve the write performance of this cluster. Reads are
good (> 110 MB/s, the ESXi servers are connected via gigabit so that'll
be the maximum) but writes are only half that (~60 MB/s). The hardware can
definitely do more - a simple dd 16 GB filewrite to the underlying filesystem
nets ~227 MB/s. I gathered some statistics during sequential write tests, I see
the load going to ~15 and some CPU usage but it looks like one CPU core is
spendings its majority in IO wait. I know the hardware can perform better - are
there any other places I should start looking?


Thanks,

Glenn
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