I have not used it in production yet but I did a test with: http://gluster.org/docs/index.php/Translators/cluster/stripe That was quite nice across 8 servers for Quicktime files (average file 1GB). Why would you say no to Xen VM files? Todd On Mon, Jun 29, 2009 at 5:52 PM, Nathan Stratton<nathan at robotics.net> wrote: > On Mon, 29 Jun 2009, Francisco Cabrita wrote: > >> Hi, >> I am trying to get a large storage system up and running. >> The thing is I don't know if Glusterfs is the right option here. So I need >> your help/experience choosing the right path. >> >> For storage I have just one server with almost 2Tb free. I can link to >> clients via Gb or phyber channel. >> Then I have two servers running Xen VM's. Each virtual machine is a raw >> image file with almost 12Gb. > > So are you planing on using GlusterFS to store xen image files? > >> Running GlusterFS in (NFS Like storage Server), is the right solution for >> me? Do I need to consider another solution. > > If you need general file storage on Dom0 or DomUs, I think Gluster is a > great option. However if your looking to store xen image files, I think you > need to keep looking. > > We run DRBD between pairs servers in 4 TB primary / primary for xen image > files and then one 12T Gluster across all servers for general file storage. > > >> <> > > Nathan Stratton ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?CTO, BlinkMind, Inc. > nathan at robotics.net ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? nathan at blinkmind.com > http://www.robotics.net ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?http://www.blinkmind.com > > _______________________________________________ > Gluster-users mailing list > Gluster-users at gluster.org > http://zresearch.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gluster-users >
