On Mon, Oct 7, 2013 at 10:27 AM, Dan Hawker <danhawker at googlemail.com> wrote: > The Linux team here use GlusterFS to host and replicate their Puppet > infrastructure between the datacentres. They like and understand it, and say > it's got good performance, so we were wondering if we could also leverage > Gluster for the persistent data stores that can't be DB hosted. > > Wondered if anyone has tried this kind of thing with Weblogic or any other > JEE app server before, and if it is feasible. We'll obviously test this > extensively, but before we do spend time and resource, we're just after some > degree of confidence that it may work at all. I would expect it to work, but as you mention, testing is key. Since you also mentioned that your team is comfortable with puppet, you might want to have a look at puppet-gluster [1] to get yourself up and running with a quick test setup. Disclaimer: I'm the puppet-gluster author. HTH, James [1] https://github.com/purpleidea/puppet-gluster
