Jonathan, You can export a Gluster mount via a client with a NFS server however the performance is pretty poor. As far as i know there is no way to export it with iSCSI. Your best option is to use a single/dual Linux/Solaris iscsi server to boot strap all your systems in xenServer and then use Gluster and fuse to mount your /data drive once the system is up and running. liam On Mon, Jun 15, 2009 at 5:15 PM, Jonathan Bayles <jbayles at readytechs.com>wrote: > Hi all, > > I am attempting to prevent my company from having to buy a SAN to backend > our virtualization platform(xenServer). Right now we have a light workload > and 4 dell 2950's (6disks, 1 controller each) to leverage against the > storage side. I like what I see in regard to the "Distributed Replicated > Storage" where you essentially create a RAID 10 of bricks. This would work > very well for me. The question is, how do I serve this storage paradigm to a > front end that's expecting an NFS share or an iSCSI target? Does gluster > enable me to access the entire cluster from a single IP? Or is it something > I could run on a centos cluster (luci and ricci) and use the cluster suite > to present the glustered file system in the form of an NFS share? > > Let me back up and state my needs/assumptions: > > * A storage cluster with the capacity equal to at least 1 node(assuming all > nodes are the same). > > * I need to be able to lose/take down any one brick in the cluster at any > time without a loss of data. > > * I need more than the throughput of a single server, if not in overall > speed, then in width. > > * I need to be able to add more bricks in and have the expectation of > increased storage capacity and throughput. > > * I need to present the storage as a single entity as an NFS share or a > iSCSI target. > > If there are any existing models out there please point me too them, I > don't mind doing the work I just don't want to re-invent the wheel. Thanks > in advance for your time and effort, I know what its like to have to answer > newbie questions! > _______________________________________________ > Gluster-users mailing list > Gluster-users at gluster.org > http://zresearch.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gluster-users > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://zresearch.com/pipermail/gluster-users/attachments/20090617/25cdb239/attachment.htm>
