<div dir="ltr">Hi Everyone,<div><br></div><div>I am hoping someone can point me in the right direction here. </div><div><br></div><div>I have a single server, currently, with about 10TB of usable space after setting up a raid50. I am looking down the road and want to give myself room for expanding just by putting in another system and joining the them together. Thinking about redundancy, failover, and expansion down the road while hopefully using equipment on hand with possibly only changing disks if needed.</div>
<div><br></div><div>So I was wondering, could I setup a single server running Glusterfs and then when I get ready to add another server, then setup the second brick? I am only looking to access via NFS and possibly ISCSI from either VM's or pulling the VM's disk files for either VMWare or Xen.</div>
<div><br></div><div>I guess the real question is, can this be useful to so and the second question is, does each system in a pair have to have identical space resources allocated? Kinda silly question, but I thought I would ask anyway.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Or would it be better to wait until the need arises, then setup 2 servers with identical specs and gluster?</div><div><br></div><div>Any thoughts on this or another option to allow me to grow my storage, really using any system with large storage on each server?</div>
<div><br></div><div>Thanks</div><div><br></div><div>Joe</div><div><br></div><div><br></div></div>