You should indeed to use the same server running as a storage brick as a KVM host to maximize hardware and power usage. Only thing I am not sure is if you can limit the amount of host memory Gluster can eat so most of it gets reserved for the Virtual Machines. Fernando -----Original Message----- From: gluster-users-bounces at gluster.org [mailto:gluster-users-bounces at gluster.org] On Behalf Of Nicolas Sebrecht Sent: 28 June 2012 10:31 To: Thomas Jackson Cc: 'gluster-users' Subject: Re: about HA infrastructure for hypervisors The 28/06/12, Thomas Jackson wrote: > Why don't you have KVM running on the Gluster bricks as well? Good point. While abtracting we decided to seperate KVM & Gluster but I can't remember why. We'll think about that again. > We have a 4 node cluster (each with 4x 300GB 15k SAS drives in > RAID10), 10 gigabit SFP+ Ethernet (with redundant switching). Each > node participates in a distribute+replicate Gluster namespace and runs > KVM. We found this to be the most efficient (and fastest) way to run the cluster. > > This works well for us, although (due to Gluster using fuse) it isn't > as fast as we would like. Currently waiting for the KVM driver that > has been discussed a few times recently, that should make a huge > difference to the performance for us. Ok! Thanks. -- Nicolas Sebrecht _______________________________________________ Gluster-users mailing list Gluster-users at gluster.org http://gluster.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gluster-users
