[RFC] GlusterFS Operations Guide

Lalatendu Mohanty <lmohanty@xxxxxxxxxx> · Fri, 30 May 2014 16:50:16 +0530



    I think it is time to create  an operations/ops guide for GlusterFS.
    Operating guide should address issues which administrators face
    while running/maintaining GlusterFS storage nodes. Openstack project
    has an operating guide [2] which try to address similar issues and
    it is pretty cool.

    
    IMO these are the typical/example questions which operating guide
    should try to address. 

    
        Maintenance, Failures, and Debugging
      
    
          What are steps for planned maintenance for
              GlusterFS node?
        
      
          Steps for replacing a failed node?
        
      
          Steps to decommission a brick?
        
      
        Logging and Monitoring
      
    
          Where are the log files?
        
      
          How to find-out if self-heal is working
              properly?
        
      
          Which log files to monitor for detecting
              failures?
        
      
      Operating guide needs good amount of work, hence we all need to
      come together for this. You can contribute for this by either of
      the following

      
         Let know others about the questions you want to get
          answered in the operating guide. ( I have set-up a etherpad
          for this [1]) 

        
        Answer the questions/issues raised by others.

        
      Comments, suggestions? 

      Should this be part of gluster code base i.e. /doc or somewhere
      else? 

      
    [1] http://titanpad.com/op-guide

    [2] http://docs.openstack.org/ops/oreilly-openstack-ops-guide.pdf

    
    Thanks,

    Lala

    #lalatenduM on freenode

  
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