Re: [Gluster-users] bonding question

2014-09-29 Thread Ron Kelley
Adding more physical interfaces to a bonded NIC won't get you more speed for single-stream operations. To get more performance out of your bonded NIC, you need to run multiple instances of the "dd" command. A snippet from a good reference article: -

[Gluster-users] Recommended volume settings for 10G VMWare Datastore

2014-09-09 Thread Ron Kelley
Greetings all, I am setting up a new pair of servers in the data center to be used exclusively as Gluster storage servers for VMWare. Each server is identical with 16G RAM, dual 10G NICs, 12x 600G 15K-RPM SAS drives, and an LSI RAID controller. Each will be running CentOS 6.5 with the latest patc

[Gluster-users] Question about redundancy

2014-08-29 Thread Ron Kelley
Greetings all, I have a question about scalability and redundancy and am looking for some pointers/advice. Suppose I have setup a 4-node distributed-replicated gluster configuration that was created using the command, "gluster volume create test-volume replica 2 transport tcp server1:/brick1