Howto install GlusterFS page 3

Posted Thu, 02/19/2009 - 01:15 by ma

4. Clients configuration

In these example files, I will use the following hosts :

server1 : 192.168.0.1
server2 : 192.168.0.2
server3 : 192.168.0.3
server4 : 192.168.0.4
[...]

Now we edit the client configuration file ON ALL SERVERS (because servers are client as well in this howto): 

vi /etc/glusterfs/glusterfs-client.vol

2 servers configuration

### Add client feature and attach to remote subvolume of server1
volume brick1
 type protocol/client
 option transport-type tcp/client
 option remote-host 192.168.0.1    # IP address of the remote brick
 option remote-subvolume brick        # name of the remote volume
end-volume
 
### Add client feature and attach to remote subvolume of server2
volume brick2
 type protocol/client
 option transport-type tcp/client
 option remote-host 192.168.0.2      # IP address of the remote brick
 option remote-subvolume brick        # name of the remote volume
end-volume
 
### The file index on server1
volume brick1-ns
 type protocol/client
 option transport-type tcp/client
 option remote-host 192.168.0.1    # IP address of the remote brick
 option remote-subvolume brick-ns        # name of the remote volume
end-volume
 
### The file index on server2
volume brick2-ns
 type protocol/client
 option transport-type tcp/client
 option remote-host 192.168.0.2      # IP address of the remote brick
 option remote-subvolume brick-ns        # name of the remote volume
end-volume
 
#The replicated volume with data
volume afr1
 type cluster/afr
 subvolumes brick1 brick2
end-volume
 
#The replicated volume with indexes
volume afr-ns
 type cluster/afr
 subvolumes brick1-ns brick2-ns
end-volume
 
#The unification of all afr volumes (used for > 2 servers)
volume unify
  type cluster/unify
  option scheduler rr # round robin
  option namespace afr-ns
  subvolumes afr1
end-volume

4 servers configuration

### Add client feature and attach to remote subvolume of server1
volume brick1
 type protocol/client
 option transport-type tcp/client
 option remote-host 192.168.0.1    # IP address of the remote brick
 option remote-subvolume brick        # name of the remote volume
end-volume
 
### Add client feature and attach to remote subvolume of server2
volume brick2
 type protocol/client
 option transport-type tcp/client
 option remote-host 192.168.0.2      # IP address of the remote brick
 option remote-subvolume brick        # name of the remote volume
end-volume
 
### Add client feature and attach to remote subvolume of server3
volume brick3
 type protocol/client
 option transport-type tcp/client
 option remote-host 192.168.0.3      # IP address of the remote brick
 option remote-subvolume brick        # name of the remote volume
end-volume
 
### Add client feature and attach to remote subvolume of server4
volume brick4
 type protocol/client
 option transport-type tcp/client
 option remote-host 192.168.0.4      # IP address of the remote brick
 option remote-subvolume brick        # name of the remote volume
end-volume
 
### Add client feature and attach to remote subvolume of server1
volume brick1-ns
 type protocol/client
 option transport-type tcp/client
 option remote-host 192.168.0.1    # IP address of the remote brick
 option remote-subvolume brick-ns        # name of the remote volume
end-volume
 
### Add client feature and attach to remote subvolume of server2
volume brick2-ns
 type protocol/client
 option transport-type tcp/client
 option remote-host 192.168.0.2      # IP address of the remote brick
 option remote-subvolume brick-ns        # name of the remote volume
end-volume
 
volume afr1
 type cluster/afr
 subvolumes brick1 brick4
end-volume
 
volume afr2
 type cluster/afr
 subvolumes brick2 brick3
end-volume
 
volume afr-ns
 type cluster/afr
 subvolumes brick1-ns brick2-ns
end-volume
 
volume unify
  type cluster/unify
  option scheduler rr # round robin
  option namespace afr-ns
  subvolumes afr1 afr2
end-volume

So on and so forth... For configuration over 4 servers, simply add brick volumes 2 by two, replicate them and dont forget to put them in the "unify" volume.

Now mount the GlusterFS on all servers in the cluster : 

glusterfs -f /etc/glusterfs/glusterfs-client.vol /mnt/glusterfs


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