Re: Gluster storage for Windows clients

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You could try windows multi path, and route each iSCSI connection to a different replica. But this is not a well tested configuration. Ceph may be a better option for you?

----- Original Message -----
> From: "shacky" <shacky83@xxxxxxxxx>
> To: gluster-users@xxxxxxxxxxx
> Sent: Saturday, January 24, 2015 3:32:47 PM
> Subject:  Gluster storage for Windows clients
> 
> Hi.
> 
> I wish to use Gluster on a two or three nodes cluster to give an high
> available storage to some Windows Server virtual machines.
> 
> I read on
> http://www.gluster.org/community/documentation/index.php/GlusterFS_iSCSI
> that I could configure some iSCSI targets on a Gluster Linux client to
> let iSCSI initiator on Windows servers mount it.
> 
> But doing to will create a single point of failure, because if the
> client goes down, the initiator won't connect to the storage. And if
> possible I don't like to add one or two more virtual machines for
> Gluster clients.
> So I could configure iSCSI targets on Gluster servers, but in this
> case how I can manage the failover in case of failure?
> 
> Thank you very much for your help!
> Bye
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