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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal>Hi All,<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>I’m currently testing GFS on a geographically distributed environment. <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='color:red'>Our scenario:<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal> 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> Volume Name: cloudgfs<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;text-indent:.5in'>Type: Replicate<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;text-indent:.5in'>Volume ID: 3e002989-6c9f-4f83-9bd5-c8a3442d8721<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;text-indent:.5in'>Status: Started<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;text-indent:.5in'>Number of Bricks: 1 x 4 = 4<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;text-indent:.5in'>Transport-type: tcp<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;text-indent:.5in'>Bricks:<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:1.0in;text-indent:.5in'>Brick1: KWTTESTGSNODE001:/mnt/cloudbrick<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:1.0in;text-indent:.5in'>Brick2: KWTTESTGSNODE002:/mnt/cloudbrick<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:1.0in;text-indent:.5in'>Brick3: DXBTESTGSNODE001:/mnt/cloudbrick<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:1.0in;text-indent:.5in'>Brick4: DXBTESTGSNODE002:/mnt/cloudbrick<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-indent:.5in'><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='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='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.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='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><b><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>Senior Technical Support Engineer | </span></b><b><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>eGroup<span style='color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>M.H. Alshaya Co. W.L.L.</span></b><span style='font-size:9.0pt;color:black'> </span><span style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:navy'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></body></html>