On 13-Sep-2013, at 9:31 PM, John Skinner <john.skin...@appcore.com> wrote:
> Sure I could look at writing up a howto for gluster. It is pretty straight > forward. > > As for the other questions; yes I am using XFS as the underlying filesystem > for gluster. For KVM, I love it. I haven't really noticed any significant > issues, what are these issues regarding HA and snapshotting? In 4.1 I haven't > had any issues creating a snapshot of a KVM VM, turning it into a template, > and launching it again. Live migration seems to work pretty good as well on > KVM, however, I haven't tested failing KVM nodes yet to see how CloudStack > deals with the outage... I assume that it will just restart the VM on an > available KVM node in the cluster. I would be very interested in your experience with GlusterFS and fault tolerance. Have you had a chance to simulate a GlusterFS brick/node failure? FWIW, I ran into issues with self healing but that was over 18 months ago. http://gluster.org/community/documentation/index.php/Gluster_3.2:_Triggering_Self-Heal_on_Replicate -- @shankerbalan M: +91 98860 60539 | O: +91 (80) 67935867 shanker.ba...@shapeblue.com | www.shapeblue.com | Twitter:@shapeblue ShapeBlue Services India LLP, 22nd floor, Unit 2201A, World Trade Centre, Bangalore - 560 055 This email and any attachments to it may be confidential and are intended solely for the use of the individual to whom it is addressed. Any views or opinions expressed are solely those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of Shape Blue Ltd or related companies. If you are not the intended recipient of this email, you must neither take any action based upon its contents, nor copy or show it to anyone. Please contact the sender if you believe you have received this email in error. Shape Blue Ltd is a company incorporated in England & Wales. ShapeBlue Services India LLP is operated under license from Shape Blue Ltd. ShapeBlue is a registered trademark.
