[Gluster-users] Gluster Disks configuration

Mahdi Adnan
2017-02-18T19:03:24Z

Hi,


I have a question regarding disk preparation.

I have 4 nodes, each has 24 SSD, i would like to know whats the best practice to
setup the disks.

The pool will be used as a vmware datastore.

im planning on using each disk as a brick without lvm, pool will be distributed
replicas with sharding enabled, do you have any comments on this setup ? because
i dont know if i should use all disks as one big disk with RAID and disable
sharding, or use each disk as a brick with sharding enabled.


also, Redhat website stated that i have to use LVM, but i couldn't get an
answer on why i should use LVM or why i should't.

"You should not create Red Hat Storage volume bricks using raw disks.
Bricks must be created on thin-provisioned Logical Volumes (LVs)"

https://access.redhat.com/articles/1273933



Thank you.

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Respectfully
Mahdi A. Mahdi

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