Re: newbie quick question

Joe Julian <joe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> · Fri, 03 Apr 2015 11:29:38 -0700



    imho, start by defining your needs then design the system to meet
    them. The only goal set out below is that you, "want to get as much
    storage out of these as possible." This would mean raid0 or 1 brick
    per disk with a distribute array (no replication).

    
    Identically sized bricks are best. Often if the disk sizes are
    mixed, raid or partitioning are used to create bricks of the same
    size.

    
    On 04/03/2015 09:36 AM, Bill Dossett
      wrote:

    
        Hi, this is my first attempt at Gluster
          storage.
         
        Just a quick help me get started question –
          the bare metal page yields a “not found” on the web site so…
         
        I have two dell 2950s fully populated with
          5 x 300GB 10K disks.
         
        I want to get as much storage out of these
          as possible.
         
        I have two more dell 2950s each with 4 x
          146GB 10K disks.
         
        Should I build one RAID 5 container on the
          first two servers, load up CentOS7 and then Gluster on that? 
          using the unused partition of what is left after loading
          CentOS?
         
        Or should I be looking at moving physical
          disks around and putting the smaller 146 GB disks as RAID 1 in
          each of the 4 servers for OS and distributing the 300GB disks
          amoung all the servers and maybe pick some more up on Ebay to
          get all 4 servers identical?
         
        Would appreciate any advice on short notice
          as I have nothing else to do today for once and would just as
          soon at least start off on the right foot!
         
        
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