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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Hi,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>So in my case:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>I have to setup a GlusterFS volume in Kuwait and a separate one in Dubai ??<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Is it possible to have a 2-way asynchronous replication between the 2 volumes as I would want the files from both volumes to be replicated to each other. Not 1-way.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'>Thanks & Regards,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>Bobby Jacob<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:Webdings;color:green'>P</span><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"MS Sans Serif";color:navy'> </span><b><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:green'>SAVE TREES</span></b><b><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:green'>. </span></b><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:green'>Please don't print this e-mail unless you really need to.</span><span style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:navy'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> Venky Shankar [mailto:yknev.shankar@gmail.com] <br><b>Sent:</b> Tuesday, May 21, 2013 4:48 PM<br><b>To:</b> Bobby Jacob<br><b>Cc:</b> gluster-users@gluster.org<br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [Gluster-users] Replication issue. Synchronous / Async..<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal>H<o:p></o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>i,<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div></div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Asynchronous replication in GlusterFS is Geo-replication, which is replicating data between two GlusterFS clusters. You cannot create a asynchronous replicated volume. <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Basically, you create two volumes in different geographies and then setup "asynchronous replication" b/w the two. The volumes itself could be pure distribute, pure replicate or distributed-replicate.<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Thanks,<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>-venky<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal>On Tue, May 21, 2013 at 6:30 PM, Bobby Jacob <<a href="mailto:bobby.jacob@alshaya.com" target="_blank">bobby.jacob@alshaya.com</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p><div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'>Hi All,<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'> <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'>I’m currently testing GFS on a geographically distributed environment. <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'> <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><b><span style='color:red'>Our scenario:</span></b><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'> We have 2 Datacenters: Kuwait/Dubai. I have build test servers in both the locations. My glusterFS volume looks like this:<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'> Volume Name: cloudgfs<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;margin-left:.5in;text-indent:.5in'>Type: Replicate<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;margin-left:.5in;text-indent:.5in'>Volume ID: 3e002989-6c9f-4f83-9bd5-c8a3442d8721<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;margin-left:.5in;text-indent:.5in'>Status: Started<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;margin-left:.5in;text-indent:.5in'>Number of Bricks: 1 x 4 = 4<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;margin-left:.5in;text-indent:.5in'>Transport-type: tcp<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;margin-left:.5in;text-indent:.5in'>Bricks:<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;margin-left:1.0in;text-indent:.5in'>Brick1: KWTTESTGSNODE001:/mnt/cloudbrick<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;margin-left:1.0in;text-indent:.5in'>Brick2: KWTTESTGSNODE002:/mnt/cloudbrick<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;margin-left:1.0in;text-indent:.5in'>Brick3: DXBTESTGSNODE001:/mnt/cloudbrick<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;margin-left:1.0in;text-indent:.5in'>Brick4: DXBTESTGSNODE002:/mnt/cloudbrick<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;text-indent:.5in'> <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;text-indent:.5in'>As you see it’s a basic replicated volume. This volume is mounted on 2 applications servers: 1in Kuwait/1 in Dubai. This volume will act as a cloud based file share for users. <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;text-indent:.5in'>The replication is synchronous. <span style='color:red'>Any idea how we can make the replication asynchronous. Any feedback on how we can make the setup more rigid.</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'> <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'> <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'>Thanks & Regards,<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><b><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Bobby Jacob</span></b><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:Webdings;color:green'>P</span><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"MS Sans Serif";color:navy'> </span><b><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:green'>SAVE TREES</span></b><b><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:green'>. </span></b><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:green'>Please don't print this e-mail unless you really need to.</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'> <o:p></o:p></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><br>_______________________________________________<br>Gluster-users mailing list<br><a href="mailto:Gluster-users@gluster.org">Gluster-users@gluster.org</a><br><a href="http://supercolony.gluster.org/mailman/listinfo/gluster-users" target="_blank">http://supercolony.gluster.org/mailman/listinfo/gluster-users</a><o:p></o:p></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></div></body></html>