From 4c9e8fad23836d87b0c4327e990c789630fe5b97 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Vijay Bellur Date: Mon, 23 Apr 2012 12:51:50 +0530 Subject: doc: Added admin guide Change-Id: Ic60558dee0d20df0c2a1bf41e4bd072ae4774912 BUG: 811311 Signed-off-by: Vijay Bellur Reviewed-on: http://review.gluster.com/3209 Tested-by: Gluster Build System Reviewed-by: Amar Tumballi Tested-by: divya M N Reviewed-by: divya M N Reviewed-by: Anand Avati --- doc/admin-guide/en-US/admin_storage_pools.xml | 57 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 57 insertions(+) create mode 100644 doc/admin-guide/en-US/admin_storage_pools.xml (limited to 'doc/admin-guide/en-US/admin_storage_pools.xml') diff --git a/doc/admin-guide/en-US/admin_storage_pools.xml b/doc/admin-guide/en-US/admin_storage_pools.xml new file mode 100644 index 000000000..87b6320bd --- /dev/null +++ b/doc/admin-guide/en-US/admin_storage_pools.xml @@ -0,0 +1,57 @@ + + + + Setting up Trusted Storage Pools + Before you can configure a GlusterFS volume, you must create a trusted storage pool consisting of the storage servers that provides bricks to a volume. + A storage pool is a trusted network of storage servers. When you start the first server, the storage pool consists of that server alone. To add additional storage servers to the storage pool, you can use the probe command from a storage server that is already trusted. + + Do not self-probe the first server/localhost. + + The GlusterFS service must be running on all storage servers that you want to add to the storage pool. See for more information. +
+ Adding Servers to Trusted Storage Pool + To create a trusted storage pool, add servers to the trusted storage pool + + + The hostnames used to create the storage pool must be resolvable by DNS. + To add a server to the storage pool: + # gluster peer probe server + For example, to create a trusted storage pool of four servers, add three servers to the storage pool from server1: + # gluster peer probe server2 +Probe successful + +# gluster peer probe server3 +Probe successful + +# gluster peer probe server4 +Probe successful + + + + Verify the peer status from the first server using the following commands: + # gluster peer status +Number of Peers: 3 + +Hostname: server2 +Uuid: 5e987bda-16dd-43c2-835b-08b7d55e94e5 +State: Peer in Cluster (Connected) + +Hostname: server3 +Uuid: 1e0ca3aa-9ef7-4f66-8f15-cbc348f29ff7 +State: Peer in Cluster (Connected) + +Hostname: server4 +Uuid: 3e0caba-9df7-4f66-8e5d-cbc348f29ff7 +State: Peer in Cluster (Connected) + + +
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+ Removing Servers from the Trusted Storage Pool + To remove a server from the storage pool: + # gluster peer detach server + For example, to remove server4 from the trusted storage pool: + # gluster peer detach server4 +Detach successful +
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