On Fri, 29 May 2020 22:30:08 +0100, Jonathan Buzzard said:
> Ethernet goes *very* fast these days you know :-) In fact *much* faster
> than fibre channel.
Yes, but the justification, purchase, and installation of 40G or 100G Ethernet
interfaces in the machines involved, plus the routers/switches
The local-block-device method of I/O is what is usually termed "SAN mode";
right?
On Sun, May 31, 2020 at 12:47 PM Jan-Frode Myklebust
wrote:
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> No, this is a common misconception. You don’t need any NSD servers. NSD
> servers are only needed if you have nodes without direct block access.
>
>
No, this is a common misconception. You don’t need any NSD servers. NSD
servers are only needed if you have nodes without direct block access.
Remote cluster or not, disk access will be over local block device (without
involving NSD servers in any way), or NSD server if local access isn’t
On 29/05/2020 20:55, Stephen Ulmer wrote:
I have a question about multi-cluster, but it is related to this thread
(it would be solving the same problem).
Let’s say we have two clusters A and B, both clusters are normally
shared-everything with no NSD servers defined.
Er, even in a
