Introduction
GlusterFS is a scalable filesystem through a network suitable for data-intensive. Tasks such as cloud storage and media streaming. GlusterFS is open-source software and can utilize standard off-the-shelf hardware. All Glusterfs document link. Check iscsi tutorial on centos8. It is cost-efficient and can be deployed on bare metal, virtual, container, and cloud environments.
Enterprises can be scalable, performance, and available on-demand, with no vendor lock-in, across on-premise, public cloud, and hybrid environments. Gluster is used in production at thousands of organizations spanning media, healthcare, government, education, web 2.0, and financial services.
This tutorial is intended to provide a step-by-step guide to setting up GlusterFS for the first time with the minimum degree of complexity. For this guide, it is required to use virtual machine instances.
Advantages
- Scales to several petabytes
- Handles thousands of clients
- POSIX compatible
- Uses commodity hardware
- Can use any ondisk filesystem that supports extended attributes
- Accessible using industry standard protocols like NFS and SMB
- Provides replication, quotas, geo-replication, snapshots and bitrot detection
- Allows optimization for different workloads
- Open Source
Enable GFS repository on centos8
Execute the command below to enable the GlusterFS repository
# yum-config-manager --enable powertools --enable devel
# dnf -y install centos-release-gluster8
Install dependencies
Add hostname and ip addreses on host file
# cat /etc/hosts
127.0.0.1 localhost localhost.localdomain localhost4 localhost4.localdomain4
::1 localhost localhost.localdomain localhost6 localhost6.localdomain6
8
192.168.56.101 master8.unixcop.com master8
192.168.56.202 worker18.unixcop.com worker1
192.168.56.203 worker28.unixcop.com worker2
Install GFS package
Follow command below
# dnf install glusterfs-server -y
Add firewall rules to allow connection to all nodes
# firewall-cmd --add-service=glusterfs
# firewall-cmd --reload
Disable Selinux
# sed -i 's/^SELINUX=.*/SELINUX=permissive/g' /etc/selinux/config
# setenforce 0
Start GlusterFS service
Follow the command below as follows. Please note if you get error /usr/lib/systemd/system/glusterd.service:21: Unknown lvalue ‘StartLimitIntervalSec’ in section ‘Service’. Change the value to 10.
#sudo systemctl start glusterd
#sudo systemctl enable glusterd
Now probe all nodes to be added to GlusterFS cluster
Execute the command below.
# gluster peer probe worker1
# gluster peer probe worker2
# gluster peer probe worker3
Check the status
Check the status of the connected nodes.
Create a new directory for GlusterFS (on both worker1 and worker2)
Directory created, we can now create the volume (named v01) that will replicate on both worker1 and worker2
# mkdir -p /glusterfs/distributed
Add GFS nodes to distributed
Please execute the command below.
# # gluster volume create vol_distributed transport tcp worker1:/glusterfs/distributed worker2:/glusterfs/distributed force
Check nodes connected to cluster
Follow the command below.
# gluster pool list
Start GFS filesystem
Please use the command below.
# gluster volume start vol_distributed
Check info of the Glusterfs cluster
Follow the commands below.
# gluster volume info
Conclusion
Please check the advantages and disadvantages of a distributed file system in comparison to traditional network memory in the table below.
Advantages
Good utilization of existing capacities |
Increased reliability |
Network load distribution |
Very good scalability |
Disadvatages
Creation of a complex network structure |
Increased administrative effort during set-up |
Quick network infrastructure is needed |
The additional effort required for technical security |
hello,
i want to ask, how to upgrade glusterfs-client from 3.8.8 to the latest version on debian 9.12 ? or if can’t to the latest version maybe down beloow the latest ..