How to build a Petabyte cluster using GlusterFS
with ZFS running on Storinator massive storage servers
If you checked out our recent video on clustering, you may have seen me keep a high-speed file transfer going, while I did just about everything I could think of that would give a system administrator nightmares. I was pulling out drives, yanking out network cables and hitting the power switch (virtually) on a server. This robustness is one of the key features of a storage cluster.
In this blog, I'm going to give you an overview of how we built that cluster, along with tons of detail on how I configured it. I'm hoping that when you see what I did, you'll see that clustering technology has improved and simplified to the point where even very small organizations can build affordable storage solutions that are incredibly robust and massively scalable.