[Gluster-users] Fwd: New GlusterFS deployment, doubts on 1 brick per host vs 1 brick per drive.

2020-09-09 Thread Miguel Mascarenhas Filipe
Hello all, I'm setting up GlusterFS on 2 hw w/ same configuration, 8 hdds. This deployment will grow later on. I'm undecided between these different configurations and am seeing comments or advice from more experienced users of GlusterFS. Here is the summary of 3 options: 1. 1 brick per host, G

Re: [Gluster-users] Fwd: New GlusterFS deployment, doubts on 1 brick per host vs 1 brick per drive.

2020-09-09 Thread Diego Zuccato
Il 09/09/20 15:30, Miguel Mascarenhas Filipe ha scritto: I'm a noob, but IIUC this is the option giving the best performance: > 2. 1 brick per drive, Gluster "distributed replicated" volumes, no > internal redundancy Clients can write to both servers in parallel and read scattered (read performa

Re: [Gluster-users] Fwd: New GlusterFS deployment, doubts on 1 brick per host vs 1 brick per drive.

2020-09-10 Thread Gionatan Danti
Il 2020-09-09 15:30 Miguel Mascarenhas Filipe ha scritto: I'm setting up GlusterFS on 2 hw w/ same configuration, 8 hdds. This deployment will grow later on. Hi, I really suggest avoiding a replica 2 cluster unless it is for testing only. Be sure to add an arbiter at least (using a replica 2

Re: [Gluster-users] Fwd: New GlusterFS deployment, doubts on 1 brick per host vs 1 brick per drive.

2020-09-10 Thread Miguel Mascarenhas Filipe
On Thu, 10 Sep 2020 at 21:53, Gionatan Danti wrote: > Il 2020-09-09 15:30 Miguel Mascarenhas Filipe ha scritto: > > I'm setting up GlusterFS on 2 hw w/ same configuration, 8 hdds. This > > deployment will grow later on. > > Hi, I really suggest avoiding a replica 2 cluster unless it is for > tes

Re: [Gluster-users] Fwd: New GlusterFS deployment, doubts on 1 brick per host vs 1 brick per drive.

2020-09-10 Thread Gionatan Danti
Il 2020-09-10 23:13 Miguel Mascarenhas Filipe ha scritto: can you explain better how a single disk failing would bring a whole node out of service? Oh, I did a bad cut/paste. A single disk failure will not put the entire node out-of-service. The main point was the potentially long heal time (