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<div>Jonathan,</div>
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<div>You can export a Gluster mount via a client with a NFS server however the performance is pretty poor. As far as i know there is no way to export it with iSCSI.</div>
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<div>Your best option is to use a single/dual Linux/Solaris iscsi server to boot strap all your systems in xenServer and then use Gluster and fuse to mount your /data drive once the system is up and running.</div>
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<div>liam<br><br></div>
<div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Jun 15, 2009 at 5:15 PM, Jonathan Bayles <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jbayles@readytechs.com">jbayles@readytechs.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote style="BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; PADDING-LEFT: 1ex" class="gmail_quote">Hi all,<br><br>I am attempting to prevent my company from having to buy a SAN to backend our virtualization platform(xenServer). Right now we have a light workload and 4 dell 2950's (6disks, 1 controller each) to leverage against the storage side. I like what I see in regard to the "Distributed Replicated Storage" where you essentially create a RAID 10 of bricks. This would work very well for me. The question is, how do I serve this storage paradigm to a front end that's expecting an NFS share or an iSCSI target? Does gluster enable me to access the entire cluster from a single IP? Or is it something I could run on a centos cluster (luci and ricci) and use the cluster suite to present the glustered file system in the form of an NFS share?<br>
<br>Let me back up and state my needs/assumptions:<br><br>* A storage cluster with the capacity equal to at least 1 node(assuming all nodes are the same).<br><br>* I need to be able to lose/take down any one brick in the cluster at any time without a loss of data.<br>
<br>* I need more than the throughput of a single server, if not in overall speed, then in width.<br><br>* I need to be able to add more bricks in and have the expectation of increased storage capacity and throughput.<br>
<br>* I need to present the storage as a single entity as an NFS share or a iSCSI target.<br><br>If there are any existing models out there please point me too them, I don't mind doing the work I just don't want to re-invent the wheel. Thanks in advance for your time and effort, I know what its like to have to answer newbie questions!<br>
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