Re: [Gluster-users] Need a quick answer on "Distributed Replicated Storage" questions

2009-06-18 Thread Shehjar Tikoo
Liam Slusser wrote: Thanks for the update Anand. Funny you mention unfs3. Just today one of our engineers at work setup unfs3 against our large production gluster cluster and, so far, it has been very good. I just was reading up on your modified booster version and will also give that a try

Re: [Gluster-users] Need a quick answer on "Distributed Replicated Storage" questions

2009-06-18 Thread Liam Slusser
Thanks for the update Anand. Funny you mention unfs3. Just today one of our engineers at work setup unfs3 against our large production gluster cluster and, so far, it has been very good. I just was reading up on your modified booster version and will also give that a try also. I'm looking forwar

Re: [Gluster-users] Need a quick answer on "Distributed Replicated Storage" questions

2009-06-18 Thread Jonathan Bayles
Anand Babu'; 'Liam Slusser' Cc: gluster-users@gluster.org Subject: Re: [Gluster-users] Need a quick answer on "Distributed Replicated Storage" questions Hello, I have a same question in my mind about isci but I belive that we can achieve the problem with installing http://i

Re: [Gluster-users] Need a quick answer on "Distributed Replicated Storage" questions

2009-06-18 Thread VahriƧ Muhtaryan
r.org [mailto:gluster-users-boun...@gluster.org] On Behalf Of Anand Babu Sent: Thursday, June 18, 2009 11:36 AM To: Liam Slusser Cc: gluster-users@gluster.org Subject: Re: [Gluster-users] Need a quick answer on "Distributed Replicated Storage" questions We made good progress with unfs3 in

Re: [Gluster-users] Need a quick answer on "Distributed Replicated Storage" questions

2009-06-18 Thread Anand Babu
We made good progress with unfs3 integration using booster model. GlusterFS and unfs3 (modified version) will run in single address space using booster library. This feature is scheduled for 2.1. We will try to have a pre-release available soon (in weeks). GlusterFS v2.2 will have a native NFS pr

Re: [Gluster-users] Need a quick answer on "Distributed Replicated Storage" questions

2009-06-17 Thread Liam Slusser
Jonathan, You can export a Gluster mount via a client with a NFS server however the performance is pretty poor. As far as i know there is no way to export it with iSCSI. Your best option is to use a single/dual Linux/Solaris iscsi server to boot strap all your systems in xenServer and then use G

[Gluster-users] Need a quick answer on "Distributed Replicated Storage" questions

2009-06-15 Thread Jonathan Bayles
Hi all, I am attempting to prevent my company from having to buy a SAN to backend our virtualization platform(xenServer). Right now we have a light workload and 4 dell 2950's (6disks, 1 controller each) to leverage against the storage side. I like what I see in regard to the "Distributed Replic