[Gluster-users] Updating Consultants on Gluster.org

2018-06-07 Thread Amye Scavarda
In the past, we've had a list of consultants for Gluster listed in the community area. It needs an update. Anyone want to be added to the list? Let me know by end of day, June 15th and I'll get you added there. -amye -- Amye Scavarda | a...@redhat.com | Gluster Community Lead ___

Re: [Gluster-users] Expanding a distributed disperse volume: some questions about the action plan

2018-06-07 Thread Mauro Tridici
Dear Ashish, thank you very much for your support. I think that I’m not able to change the volume configuration for the reason you mentioned at the end of your n.1 answer. GNFS mount is a very good idea, thank you!!! I will use it in my action plan. I’m very happy to have been helped by you (Ash

Re: [Gluster-users] Expanding a distributed disperse volume: some questions about the action plan

2018-06-07 Thread Mauro Tridici
Hi Serkan, thank you very much for your answer. I really appreciate your suggestion (extension + rebalance + upgrade), but we would like to avoid any errors or risks of data loss during the upgrade procedure (we don’t have an advanced experience and we don’t know what to do if something goes wr

Re: [Gluster-users] Expanding a distributed disperse volume: some questions about the action plan

2018-06-07 Thread Ashish Pandey
Mauro, Your plan looks fine to me. However, I would like to add few points. 1 - After adding 3 more nodes you will have overall 6 nodes. It would be better if you can have 1 brick on each server for any EC subvolume. For example: for 4+2, all 6 bricks should be on different nodes. This will h

Re: [Gluster-users] Expanding a distributed disperse volume: some questions about the action plan

2018-06-07 Thread Serkan Çoban
>in order to copy the data from the old volume to the new one, I need a third >machine that can mount both the volumes; it's possible? if yes, which gluster >client version should I use/install on the "bridge" machine? Yes it is possible, you need to install old client version to bridge server, o

[Gluster-users] Expanding a distributed disperse volume: some questions about the action plan

2018-06-07 Thread Mauro Tridici
Dear Users, just one year ago, we implemented a tier2 storage based on GlusterFS v.3.10.5 and we can say that it works like a charm. The GlusterFS volume has been created using 3 physical servers (each server contains 12 disks, 1 brick per disk). Below, you can find some information about the