On Sat, 18 Jul 2009, Alexandre Emeriau wrote: > Hello, > > What is for you the best GlusterFS scenario in using XenServer (i'm not > talking about Xen on a linux but XenServer baremetal) for a web farm > (Apache-Tomcat) ? I were thinking of using ZFS as the filesystem for the > different nodes. > > The objectives/needs : > > * A storage cluster with the capacity equal to at least 1 node(assuming all > nodes are the same). > * being able to lose/take down any one brick in the cluster at any time > without a loss of data. > * more than the throughput of a single server, if not in overall speed, then > in width. > * being able to add more bricks in and have the expectation of increased > storage capacity and throughput. > * present the storage as a single entity This is all doable, the only downside is that last time I tested even with raw RAID 6 IO of 400 meg, I was only able to get 25 MB/s with --disable-direct-io-mode. ><> Nathan Stratton CTO, BlinkMind, Inc. nathan at robotics.net nathan at blinkmind.com http://www.robotics.net http://www.blinkmind.com
