Re: [CentOS] iSCSI / GFS shared web server file system

2010-04-27 Thread James
Web servers are mostly read-only, so unless your web servers are going to do a lot of writing to shared storage I would simply use rsync to a local disk in each server, or use NFS, even NFS and heartbeat for redundancy will be 100 times simpler to setup and maintain.

Re: [CentOS] iSCSI / GFS shared web server file system

2010-04-24 Thread Ross Walker
On Apr 23, 2010, at 1:00 PM, James jch...@mandaladesigns.com wrote: http://sources.redhat.com/cluster/doc/nfscookbook.pdf I think it'd be much easier if you just replicate the data between the servers with rsync or something. GFS sounds like way overkill for a couple of web servers. Maybe

Re: [CentOS] iSCSI / GFS shared web server file system

2010-04-23 Thread Geoff Galitz
my impression is GFS requires shared storage, I believe there are ways around it, but take a look at this for setting up GFS for use with NFS iSCSI provides the basic foundation needed by GFS for shared storage, so the OP is good for that. GFS, however, is not exactly a simple technology to

Re: [CentOS] iSCSI / GFS shared web server file system

2010-04-23 Thread Hakan Koseoglu
On Fri, Apr 23, 2010 at 8:10 AM, Geoff Galitz ge...@galitz.org wrote: OCSF2 over iSCSI is a good option to look at, too.  There is also gluster. But NFS is going to be the mainstream approach with the best support and administration options unless the OP is running into some technical

Re: [CentOS] iSCSI / GFS shared web server file system

2010-04-23 Thread James
http://sources.redhat.com/cluster/doc/nfscookbook.pdf I think it'd be much easier if you just replicate the data between the servers with rsync or something. GFS sounds like way overkill for a couple of web servers. Maybe you're right that GFS would be overkill -- I know you have to

[CentOS] iSCSI / GFS shared web server file system

2010-04-22 Thread jchase
We currently have a MD3000i with an iSCSI LUN shared out to our apache web server. We are going to add another apache web server into the mix using LVS to load balance, however, I am curious how well iSCSI handles file locking and data integrity. I have the iSCSI partition formatted as ext3.

Re: [CentOS] iSCSI / GFS shared web server file system

2010-04-22 Thread John R Pierce
jchase wrote: We currently have a MD3000i with an iSCSI LUN shared out to our apache web server. We are going to add another apache web server into the mix using LVS to load balance, however, I am curious how well iSCSI handles file locking and data integrity. ... it doesn't, not even

Re: [CentOS] iSCSI / GFS shared web server file system

2010-04-22 Thread Hakan Koseoglu
Hi James, On Thu, Apr 22, 2010 at 11:38 PM, jchase jch...@mandaladesigns.com wrote: We currently have a MD3000i with an iSCSI LUN shared out to our apache web server. We are going to add another apache web server into the mix using LVS to load balance, however, I am curious how well iSCSI

Re: [CentOS] iSCSI / GFS shared web server file system

2010-04-22 Thread James
On 4/22/2010 6:51 PM, John R Pierce wrote: jchase wrote: We currently have a MD3000i with an iSCSI LUN shared out to our apache web server. We are going to add another apache web server into the mix using LVS to load balance, however, I am curious how well iSCSI handles file locking and

Re: [CentOS] iSCSI / GFS shared web server file system

2010-04-22 Thread nate
James wrote: That was my impression from reading through the docs anyways. I've never set it up. my impression is GFS requires shared storage, I believe there are ways around it, but take a look at this for setting up GFS for use with NFS http://sources.redhat.com/cluster/doc/nfscookbook.pdf