<div dir="ltr">The more bricks you allocate, the higher your operational complexity. One brick per server is perfectly fine.</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Mar 20, 2014 at 3:34 PM, John Gardeniers <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jgardeniers@objectmastery.com" target="_blank">jgardeniers@objectmastery.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Another typo has been pointed out and this one I can't blame on<br>
auto-correct. The storage size will 5TB, not 5GB.<br>
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John<br>
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On 20/03/14 11:48, John Gardeniers wrote:<br>
> That title should say "brick", not "bring". I thought I had auto-correct<br>
> disabled. Sorry.<br>
><br>
> On 20/03/14 11:44, John Gardeniers wrote:<br>
>> Having experimented with Gluster for the last month I'm now ready to<br>
>> create a set-up for production. This will be the storing VM images.<br>
>> These are less than 100GB each, with the majority being around 20BG.<br>
>><br>
>> The plan is to have 5GB of storage using a replication pair to allow for<br>
>> fail-over, with geo-replication to another server for backup purposes.<br>
>> The underlying disks on each server are RAID 10.<br>
>><br>
>> Am I better off creating a single 5GB brick on each server or would<br>
>> there be advantages in creating several smaller bricks?<br>
>><br>
>> Thanks,<br>
>> John<br>
>><br>
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