I am planning to implement GFS for my university as a summer project. I have 10 servers each with SAN disks attached. I will be reading and writing many files for professor's research projects. Each file can be anywhere from 1k to 120GB (fluid dynamic research images). The 10 servers will be using NIC bonding (1GB/network). So, would GFS be ideal for this? I have been reading a lot about it and it seems like a perfect solution.
Any thoughts?
TIA
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05-29-2008, 09:16 AM
Karanbir Singh
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Mag Gam wrote:
> I am planning to implement GFS for my university as a summer project. I
> have 10 servers each with SAN disks attached.
GFS works well, gfs2 is at the moment in technology-preview mode only,
but its still worth looking at.
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05-30-2008, 03:21 AM
Jay Leafey
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Mag Gam wrote:
Hello:
I am planning to implement GFS for my university as a summer project. I
have 10 servers each with SAN disks attached. I will be reading and
writing many files for professor's research projects. Each file can be
anywhere from 1k to 120GB (fluid dynamic research images). The 10
servers will be using NIC bonding (1GB/network). So, would GFS be ideal
for this? I have been reading a lot about it and it seems like a perfect
solution.
Any thoughts?
TIA
"Perfect"? No, but usable. We've got a cluster of 4 systems attached
to a fibre-channel-based SAN running CentOS 4 and the Cluster Suite
components with multiple instances of the Oracle database. It actually
works pretty well and fails over nicely in the case of exceptions. It
is moderately complex to set up, but the information needed REALLY IS in
the docs... you just have to REALLY read them!
We haven't tried CentOS 5 and the new cluster components as Oracle only
supports the version of the database we're running on Red Hat EL4.
Given that, the combination looks a bit more "finished" than the
versions in EL4.
Another alternative that we are examining is using OCFS2 (Oracle Cluster
File System 2) and iSCSI for the shared storage with Heartbeat for
service management. This combination looks to be a bit "lighter" than
the Cluster Suite and GFS, but I'm hoping to confirm or disprove that
impression this summer in my "copious free time".
As usual, you mileage may vary.
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Karanbir Singh
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Jay Leafey wrote:
> Another alternative that we are examining is using OCFS2 (Oracle Cluster
> File System 2) and iSCSI for the shared storage with Heartbeat for
> service management. This combination looks to be a bit "lighter" than
> the Cluster Suite and GFS, but I'm hoping to confirm or disprove that
> impression this summer in my "copious free time".
ocfs isnt really worth spending time on anymore. iirc, even oracle no
longer support an ocfs/ocfs2 based backend store.
might as well consider gpfs ( the cost per machine isnt that high, and
there is reasonable assurances that it would work ).
/me is still thrashing out gfs2 though, and conga! and clusterlvm!
Has anyone successfully setup GFS? I have SAN connected to several
computers by fibre, and it appears that GFS is the way to go as opposed
to use an NFS server.
Do I really need to set up all the other aspects of a Redhat cluster to
get GFS to work? There doesn't seem to be a good HOW-TO of this
anywhere, and the RedHat docs are not as helpful as I would have liked.
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10-08-2008, 06:23 AM
lingu
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Hi,
Sorry i dont have time time thats why i mailed it in urgent if you
get strucked up anywhere mail me, sorry if you find any words are
mispeled.
For GFS to work u need to install all cluster related rpms and
configure the simple running cluster with following things configured.
-t LockTableName
The lock table field appropriate to the lock module you're using.
It is clustername:fsname. Clustername must match that in cluster.conf;
-j
Specifies the number of journals to be created by the gfs_mkfs
command. One journal is required for each node that mounts the file
system. (More journals than are needed can be specified at creation
time to allow for future expansion.)
After that u can mount it to ur desired mount point in our case we
created /data-new using mkdir
mount -t gfs /dev/testapps/data /data-new/
2008/10/8 Ryan Golhar <golharam@umdnj.edu>:
> Has anyone successfully setup GFS? I have SAN connected to several
> computers by fibre, and it appears that GFS is the way to go as opposed to
> use an NFS server.
>
> Do I really need to set up all the other aspects of a Redhat cluster to get
> GFS to work? There doesn't seem to be a good HOW-TO of this anywhere, and
> the RedHat docs are not as helpful as I would have liked.
>
>
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10-29-2008, 12:23 PM
Kristoffer Knigga
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I just took RH436 last week, so here is what I understand from that:
You must have a basic cluster set up to use GFS. The reason being that everything using a shared file system like this must be able to communicate in order to negotiate locking. If there was no such communication, you'd have the possibility of node1 and node2 trying to write the same block at the same time, and thus causing inconsistent data. Red Hat Cluster Suite manages this communication to ensure everything is copasetic.
Shared storage + GFS is not a replacement for NFS.
Kris
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Has anyone successfully setup GFS? I have SAN connected to several
computers by fibre, and it appears that GFS is the way to go as opposed
to use an NFS server.
Do I really need to set up all the other aspects of a Redhat cluster to
get GFS to work? There doesn't seem to be a good HOW-TO of this
anywhere, and the RedHat docs are not as helpful as I would have liked.
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Its at least a partial replacement - instead of a single box exporting an NFS share for a bunch of boxes to mount (IE single point of failure) you have each box mount it directly.
But yes, you need the clusterware installed and configured for gfs to be useable.
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I just took RH436 last week, so here is what I understand from that:
You must have a basic cluster set up to use GFS. The reason being that everything using a shared file system like this must be able to communicate in order to negotiate locking. If there was no such communication, you'd have the possibility of node1 and node2 trying to write the same block at the same time, and thus causing inconsistent data. Red Hat Cluster Suite manages this communication to ensure everything is copasetic.
Shared storage + GFS is not a replacement for NFS.
Kris
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Has anyone successfully setup GFS? I have SAN connected to several
computers by fibre, and it appears that GFS is the way to go as opposed
to use an NFS server.
Do I really need to set up all the other aspects of a Redhat cluster to
get GFS to work? There doesn't seem to be a good HOW-TO of this
anywhere, and the RedHat docs are not as helpful as I would have liked.
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For something like /home, though, an small NFS cluster would probably be way less of a hassle than a huge cluster and it would still eliminate the single point of failure.
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Its at least a partial replacement - instead of a single box exporting an NFS share for a bunch of boxes to mount (IE single point of failure) you have each box mount it directly.
But yes, you need the clusterware installed and configured for gfs to be useable.
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I just took RH436 last week, so here is what I understand from that:
You must have a basic cluster set up to use GFS. The reason being that everything using a shared file system like this must be able to communicate in order to negotiate locking. If there was no such communication, you'd have the possibility of node1 and node2 trying to write the same block at the same time, and thus causing inconsistent data. Red Hat Cluster Suite manages this communication to ensure everything is copasetic.
Shared storage + GFS is not a replacement for NFS.
Kris
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Subject: GFS
Has anyone successfully setup GFS? I have SAN connected to several
computers by fibre, and it appears that GFS is the way to go as opposed
to use an NFS server.
Do I really need to set up all the other aspects of a Redhat cluster to
get GFS to work? There doesn't seem to be a good HOW-TO of this
anywhere, and the RedHat docs are not as helpful as I would have liked.
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