> -----Original Message----- > From: James [mailto:purpleidea@xxxxxxxxx] > Sent: 17 January 2014 11:58 > To: Mike Peters > Cc: gluster-users@xxxxxxxxxxx > Subject: Re: Gluster Failover Mount > > On Fri, Jan 17, 2014 at 6:46 AM, <Mike.Peters@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I am currently testing GlusterFS and am looking for some advice. My setup > uses the latest 3.4.2 packages from www.gluster.org SLES11-SP3. > > > > I currently have a storage pool shared read-write across 2 gluster server > nodes. This seems to work fine. However, I would also like to mount this pool > on 4 further client machines running a legacy web application. Because of > some limitations in the application, I would like to be able to tell these > servers to mount the storage pool from one particular gluster server node, > but to fail over to the second node if and only the first node becomes > unavailable. I can mount the storage on the client nodes with both gluster > nodes specified or with only one node specified but cannot see a way in the > documentation of preferring one particular node and having the second > node configured as a fail over. Is this possible? What am I missing? > > You do realize that the initial connection is just for retrieving the volfiles, and > then all hosts are used, right? If so, carrying on: > > You can use VRRP and a VIP to specify which host to mount from. An > example of this is done in my Puppet-Gluster setup: > https://ttboj.wordpress.com/2014/01/08/automatically-deploying-glusterfs- > with-puppet-gluster-vagrant/ > > You can specify ordering of the VIP with priority arguments to keepalived for > example. > > You can also specify more than one server on the mount command for > glusterfs. I forget the syntax for that, but it's easy to google. > > I hope this answers your questions! > > James Hi James, That definitely sounds feasible. I hadn't thought of doing it at that layer. We use ldirectord for load balancing the webservices so I'll give that a shot this afternoon. Thanks for your help. Mike _______________________________________________ Gluster-users mailing list Gluster-users@xxxxxxxxxxx http://supercolony.gluster.org/mailman/listinfo/gluster-users
