<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div class="">I’m experimenting with hyper-converged virtualization based on oVirt (RHEV) and Gluster. In this configuration a small set of nodes provides both virtualization and storage services on each physical system.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">One of the workloads that I’m planning to run on this environment is Satellite 6. I’m wondering if it might make sense to locate the pulp data directory (/var/lib/pulp) on glusterfs directly rather than inside of the VM image (which is in turn is served by gluster). It seems to make sense to remove some layers if possible. </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I’m curious if anyone has already attempted to run pulp on top of glusterfs?</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Beyond that, if I were to perform some testing of different configurations what do you think is a valid way to benchmark pulp performance?</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Of course mongodb and PostgreSQL and MongoDB are monsters of their own… I’m working out ways to make sure that Mongo and Postgres will only run on fast SSD-based storage but that’s for another list. </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Thanks.</div><div class="">
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