On Jan 7, 2012, at 21:21 , Tim Small wrote: > On 07/01/12 08:33, Kirill Korotaev wrote: >>> (maybe pacemaker with drbd, or glusterfs, or sheepdog) to distribute the >>> storage between the nodes, and allow moving VMs between nodes. >> >> do not recomment gluster or sheepdog - they are nowhere near production >> quality. So speaking about reliability - a described HW with SAS drives RAID >> is by far more reliable. >> > > I've not done much with gluster, but I know people who have it in > production and are happy with it. Sheepdog looks very promising - we've > had a bit of a play with it and plan to do more investigation in the > future... We have drbd in production and are happy with it.
How big total storage these people are running with gluster? > Over the years, I've had so much trouble with hardware RAID, that I now > avoid it if at all possible. > > My experience with real top-end hardware has been that you get to find > lots of interesting new bugs (both software and hardware) because you're > using relatively unusual hardware - you end up with a machine which is > like 0.01% of the global machines running Linux instead of 5% or > whatever. When you do hit such bugs, often the developers can't > reproduce the issue because they don't have access to the same hardware... > > RAISe - Rudundant Array of Inexpensive Servers! :-) > > Tim. > > -- > South East Open Source Solutions Limited > Registered in England and Wales with company number 06134732. > Registered Office: 2 Powell Gardens, Redhill, Surrey, RH1 1TQ > VAT number: 900 6633 53 http://seoss.co.uk/ +44-(0)1273-808309 > _______________________________________________ Users mailing list Users@openvz.org https://openvz.org/mailman/listinfo/users
