German - A good place to start would be the Introduction to Gluster guide, http://download.gluster.com/pub/gluster/systems-engineering/Introduction_to_Gluster.pdf . Please let me know if you have any questions. Thanks, Craig --> Craig Carl Senior Systems Engineer; Gluster, Inc. Cell - ( 408) 829-9953 (California, USA) Office - ( 408) 770-1884 Gtalk - craig.carl at gmail.com Twitter - @gluster Installing Gluster Storage Platform, the movie! http://rackerhacker.com/2010/08/11/one-month-with-glusterfs-in-production/ From: "Germ?n Latorre" <german.latorre at twindocs.com> To: gluster-users at gluster.org Sent: Wednesday, October 20, 2010 10:11:13 AM Subject: Advice in designing a distributed GlusterFS architecture Hello, We are a company that need a scalable storage architecture for large amounts of files, and we are thinking of use a solution based in GlusterFS. We need an architecture consiting in several server files configured as a distributed file system that provide HA storage. I would like to get some advice about an initial hardware and architectural configuration that would suit best the GlusterFS needs to build a solid system, such as how many servers are needed (we want no single point of failure, and have a good I/O performance), and which kind of hardware (which kind or servers, disks, network, direct storage devices, ...) is needed. We would start with several TB (maybe around 20TB?), but our storage system should progressively be able to scale up to more than 1PB. I don't know if this list is the right place to post this message. Apologies if it isn't. Thank you very much in advance for your attention in any case. Best regards, Germ?n Latorre. _______________________________________________ Gluster-users mailing list Gluster-users at gluster.org http://gluster.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gluster-users
