Re: [Gluster-users] Need advice for choosing proper glusterfs cluster hardware

2012-03-30 Thread Jeff Darcy
On 03/13/2012 01:02 PM, Bryan Whitehead wrote: > No matter what you do, you will be limited by your network speed. Consider > getting 10Gig network cards or Infiniband. > > All writes will need to hit both servers, so the max throughput you'll get is > about 50MB/sec with a 1G card. You can get a

Re: [Gluster-users] Need advice for choosing proper glusterfs cluster hardware

2012-03-13 Thread Bryan Whitehead
No matter what you do, you will be limited by your network speed. Consider getting 10Gig network cards or Infiniband. All writes will need to hit both servers, so the max throughput you'll get is about 50MB/sec with a 1G card. You can get a full 100MB/sec by using the NFS/gluster connector to one

[Gluster-users] Need advice for choosing proper glusterfs cluster hardware

2012-03-12 Thread Xavier Normand
Hi, I'm in a process to our NFS / DRDB setup to a more scalable glusterfs cluster. I would like to some advise on what would be the best hardware match to fit both speed and storage. Currently our actual setup fit's out need for speed, but adding storage in that kind of setup a pain! Current s