[Openstack-operators] Shared storage HA question
Stephane Boisvert
stephane.boisvert at gameloft.com
Wed Jul 24 14:47:16 UTC 2013
sorry to interfere in that thread but I did set cache=true in my ceph
config... but where I can set cache=writeback ?
thanks for your help
On 13-07-24 10:40 AM, Jacob Godin wrote:
> A few things I found were key for I/O performance:
>
> 1. Make sure your network can sustain the traffic. We are using a 10G
> backbone with 2 bonded interfaces per node.
> 2. Use high speed drives. SATA will not cut it.
> 3. Look into tuning settings. Razique, thanks for sending these along
> to me a little while back. A couple that I found were useful:
> * KVM cache=writeback (a little risky, but WAY faster)
> * Gluster write-behind-window-size (set to 4MB in our setup)
> * Gluster cache-size (ideal values in our setup were 96MB-128MB)
>
> Hope that helps!
>
>
>
> On Wed, Jul 24, 2013 at 11:32 AM, Razique Mahroua
> <razique.mahroua at gmail.com <mailto:razique.mahroua at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
> I had much performance issues myself with Windows instances, and
> I/O demanding instances. Make sure it fits your env. first before
> deploying it in production
>
> Regards,
> Razique
>
> *Razique Mahroua** - **Nuage & Co*
> razique.mahroua at gmail.com <mailto:razique.mahroua at gmail.com>
> Tel : +33 9 72 37 94 15
>
>
> Le 24 juil. 2013 à 16:25, Jacob Godin <jacobgodin at gmail.com
> <mailto:jacobgodin at gmail.com>> a écrit :
>
>> Hi Denis,
>>
>> I would take a look into GlusterFS with a distributed, replicated
>> volume. We have been using it for several months now, and it has
>> been stable. Nova will need to have the volume mounted to its
>> instances directory (default /var/lib/nova/instances), and Cinder
>> has direct support for Gluster as of Grizzly I believe.
>>
>>
>>
>> On Wed, Jul 24, 2013 at 11:11 AM, Denis Loshakov
>> <dloshakov at gmail.com <mailto:dloshakov at gmail.com>> wrote:
>>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I have issue with creating shared storage for Openstack. Main
>> idea is to create 100% redundant shared storage from two
>> servers (kind of network RAID from two servers).
>> I have two identical servers with many disks inside. What
>> solution can any one provide for such schema? I need shared
>> storage for running VMs (so live migration can work) and also
>> for cinder-volumes.
>>
>> One solution is to install Linux on both servers and use DRBD
>> + OCFS2, any comments on this?
>> Also I heard about Quadstor software and it can create
>> network RAID and present it via iSCSI.
>>
>> Thanks.
>>
>> P.S. Glance uses swift and is setuped on another servers
>>
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