One other thought.<div><br></div><div>We are using Lenovo Thinkserver RD240's. They are powerful, and inexpensive. They might be less then the Super-micro.</div><div><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Jan 28, 2012 at 6:46 PM, Matthew Mackes <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:matthewmackes@deltasoniccarwash.com">matthewmackes@deltasoniccarwash.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Hello,<div><br></div><div>You are on the right track.Your mount points are fine.I like to mount my Gluster storage under /mnt/gluster and place my bricks inside /STORAGE. </div>
<div><br></div><div>I think that you are planing many more network interfaces per node then your 4 (even 8) SATA drives per node at 7200 RPM will require. 2 <span>aggregate ports should be plenty for heavy load, and one for normal use.</span></div>
<div><font color="#222222" face="arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:15px"><br></span></font></div><div><font color="#222222" face="arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:15px">In my experience the 7200 RPM SATA drives will be your bottleneck. 15,000 RPM SAS is a better choice for a storage node that requires heavy storage load.</span></font></div>
<div><font color="#222222" face="arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:15px"><br></span></font></div><div><font color="#222222" face="arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:15px">The only case I can think of for 4+ network interfaces per machine is if you intend to subnet your Gluster SAN network from your normal network used for storage access and administration. In that case you could bond 2 interfaces for the Gluster SAN network (for replication, stripping, et between nodes) and the other pair bonded for your SAMBA and management access.</span></font></div>
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