Gluster users - Apr 2015 - newbie quick question

Hi, this is my first attempt at Gluster storage.

Just a quick help me get started question - the bare metal page yields a
"not found" on the web site so...

I have two dell 2950s fully populated with 5 x 300GB 10K disks.

I want to get as much storage out of these as possible.

I have two more dell 2950s each with 4 x 146GB 10K disks.

Should I build one RAID 5 container on the first two servers, load up CentOS7
and then Gluster on that?  using the unused partition of what is left after
loading CentOS?

Or should I be looking at moving physical disks around and putting the smaller
146 GB disks as RAID 1 in each of the 4 servers for OS and distributing the
300GB disks amoung all the servers and maybe pick some more up on Ebay to get
all 4 servers identical?

Would appreciate any advice on short notice as I have nothing else to do today
for once and would just as soon at least start off on the right foot!

Bill Dossett
Systems Architect

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imho, start by defining your needs then design the system to meet them. 
The only goal set out below is that you, "want to get as much storage 
out of these as possible." This would mean raid0 or 1 brick per disk 
with a distribute array (no replication).

Identically sized bricks are best. Often if the disk sizes are mixed, 
raid or partitioning are used to create bricks of the same size.

On 04/03/2015 09:36 AM, Bill Dossett wrote:
>
> Hi, this is my first attempt at Gluster storage.
>
> Just a quick help me get started question ? the bare metal page yields 
> a ?not found? on the web site so?
>
> I have two dell 2950s fully populated with 5 x 300GB 10K disks.
>
> I want to get as much storage out of these as possible.
>
> I have two more dell 2950s each with 4 x 146GB 10K disks.
>
> Should I build one RAID 5 container on the first two servers, load up 
> CentOS7 and then Gluster on that? using the unused partition of what 
> is left after loading CentOS?
>
> Or should I be looking at moving physical disks around and putting the 
> smaller 146 GB disks as RAID 1 in each of the 4 servers for OS and 
> distributing the 300GB disks amoung all the servers and maybe pick 
> some more up on Ebay to get all 4 servers identical?
>
> Would appreciate any advice on short notice as I have nothing else to 
> do today for once and would just as soon at least start off on the 
> right foot!
>
> *Bill Dossett*
>
> Systems Architect
>
> *Tech Central ? Global Engineering Services*
>
> *T* +1 303 440 3523
>
> *M* +44 (0)777 590 8612
>
> bill.dossett at pb.com <mailto:bill.dossett at pb.com>
>
> pitneybowes.com <http://pitneybowes.com/>
>
>
> *Pitney Bowes*
>
> 4750 Walnut Street | Boulder, Colorado, 80301 | USA
>
> In Engineering?
>
> *Raise a ticket via Remedy Anywhere [HERE 
>
<applewebdata://5D25CA10-0BA9-4233-9DDF-69951F87F8AB/teamsite.inside.pb.com/sites/TCPPM/GES/Lists/Create%20Incident/newIncident.aspx>]takes
> less than a minute*
>
> **
>
> *CloudForms User Guide available* [*HERE 
>
<https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/6219441/ManageIQ%20-%20User%20Manual%20PB%20v5.pdf>*]
>
>
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