<div dir="ltr"><br><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 22 May 2015 at 12:11, Patrick Ernst <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:patrick.ernst@bullites.com" target="_blank">patrick.ernst@bullites.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div>Hi there,<br><br>I'm planning to setup a 3-Node Cluster for oVirt and would like to use 56 GBe (RoCe) <br>exclusively for GlusterFS. Since 56 GBe switches are far too expensive and it's not <br>planned to add more nodes and furthermore this would add a SPOF I'd like to <br>cross connect the nodes as shown in the diagram below:<br><br>Node 1 Node 2 Node3<br> ||_______||________||<br> |___________________|<br><br>This way there's a dedicated 56 Gbit connection to/from each member node. <br><br>Is is possible to do this with GlusterFS?<br></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>IIUC, you have a 56Gbe dedicated network among glusterfs servers. Right?<br><br></div><div>If that is correct, it's not going to help much. In glusterfs clustering (distribution/replication) is done by the client. So having a faster connection from client to servers would be helpful.<br></div><div>Only glusterds (and glustershd as well???) talk to each other among servers. Maybe be someone can elaborate more.<br><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div>My first thought was to have different IPs on each node's /etc/host mapped to the node <br>hostnames but I'm unsure if I can force GlusterFS to hostnames instead of IPs.<span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><br></font></span></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Yes, you can use any properly resolvable hostname with gluster.<br><br></div><div>HTH<br></div><div><br></div><div>Best Regards,<br></div><div>Vishwanath<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div><span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><br>Patrick<br></font></span></div><br>_______________________________________________<br>
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