If you're looking at a Gluster+Samba setup of any description for people extensively using Microsoft Office tools (either Windows or Mac clients), I *strongly* suggested exhaustive testing of Microsoft Word and Excel. I've yet to find a way to make these work 100% on Gluster. Strange client-side locking behaviour with these tools often make documents completely unusable when hosted off Gluster. We host our large production files (VFX industry) off Gluster, however have a separate Windows Server VM purely for administration to host their legacy Microsoft Office documents (we've since migrated largely to Google Apps + Google Drive for that stuff, but the legacy requirement remains for a handful of users). -Dan ---------------- Dan Mons - R&D Sysadmin Cutting Edge http://cuttingedge.com.au On 10 August 2015 at 15:42, Mathieu Chateau <mathieu.chateau@xxxxxxx> wrote: > Hello, > > what do you mean by "true" clustering ? > We can do a Windows Failover cluster (1 virtual ip, 1 virtual name), but > this mean using a shared storage like SAN. > > Then it depends on your network topology. If you have multiple geographical > sites / datacenter, then DFS-R behave a lot better than Gluster in > replicated mode. Users won't notice any latency, > At the price that replication is async. > > > Cordialement, > Mathieu CHATEAU > http://www.lotp.fr > > 2015-08-10 7:26 GMT+02:00 Ira Cooper <ira@xxxxxxxxxx>: >> >> Mathieu Chateau <mathieu.chateau@xxxxxxx> writes: >> >> > I do have DFS-R in production, that replaced sometimes netapp ones. >> > But no similar workload as my current GFS. >> > >> > In active/active, the most common issue is file changed on both side (no >> > global lock) >> > Will users access same content from linux & windows ? >> >> If you want to go active/active. I'd recommend Samba + CTDB + Gluster. >> >> You want true clustering, and a system that can handle the locking etc. >> >> I'd layer normal DFS to do "namespace" control, and to help with >> handling failover, or just use round robin DNS. >> >> Thanks, >> >> -Ira > > > > _______________________________________________ > Gluster-users mailing list > Gluster-users@xxxxxxxxxxx > http://www.gluster.org/mailman/listinfo/gluster-users _______________________________________________ Gluster-users mailing list Gluster-users@xxxxxxxxxxx http://www.gluster.org/mailman/listinfo/gluster-users
