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Managing Trusted Storage Pools

Overview

A trusted storage pool(TSP) is a trusted network of storage servers. Before you can configure a GlusterFS volume, you must create a trusted storage pool of the storage servers that will provide bricks to the volume by peer probing the servers. The servers in a TSP are peers of each other.

After installing Gluster on your servers and before creating a trusted storage pool, each server belongs to a storage pool consisting of only that server.

Before you start:

  • The servers used to create the storage pool must be resolvable by hostname.

  • The glusterd daemon must be running on all storage servers that you want to add to the storage pool. See Managing the glusterd Service for details.

  • The firewall on the servers must be configured to allow access to port 24007.

The following commands were run on a TSP consisting of 3 servers - server1, server2, and server3.

Adding Servers

To add a server to a TSP, peer probe it from a server already in the pool.

    # gluster peer probe <server>

For example, to add a new server4 to the cluster described above, probe it from one of the other servers:

    server1#  gluster peer probe server4
    Probe successful

Verify the peer status from the first server (server1):

    server1# 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: 3e0cabaa-9df7-4f66-8e5d-cbc348f29ff7
    State: Peer in Cluster (Connected)

Listing Servers

To list all nodes in the TSP:

    server1# gluster pool list
    UUID                                    Hostname        State
    d18d36c5-533a-4541-ac92-c471241d5418    localhost       Connected
    5e987bda-16dd-43c2-835b-08b7d55e94e5    server2         Connected
    1e0ca3aa-9ef7-4f66-8f15-cbc348f29ff7    server3         Connected
    3e0cabaa-9df7-4f66-8e5d-cbc348f29ff7    server4         Connected

Viewing Peer Status

To view the status of the peers in the TSP:

    server1# 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: 3e0cabaa-9df7-4f66-8e5d-cbc348f29ff7
    State: Peer in Cluster (Connected)

Removing Servers

To remove a server from the TSP, run the following command from another server in the pool:

    # gluster peer detach <server>

For example, to remove server4 from the trusted storage pool:

    server1# gluster peer detach server4
    Detach successful

Verify the peer status:

    server1# gluster peer status
    Number of Peers: 2

    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)