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Upgrading Your Managed Server to SSD for Maximum Performance and Cost Savings


The biggest advantage of Solid State Drives is lack of moving parts as compared to traditional hard drives.  This allows the drives to survive longer, and have faster read and write times.  It makes them ideal for an enterprise environment where performance and reliability are expected.  The SSD drives use less than a third of power compared to SAS or SATA, and promise twice the life expectancy.   Power consumption alone should save …

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Using GlusterFS On Your Managed Server


You will first need to setup a distributed GlusterFS storage cluster and follow these instructions:
First, we will have to install  EPEL repository:
[root@webserver ~]# rpm -Uvh http://mirror.symnds.com/distributions/fedora-epel/6/x86_64/epel-release-6-8.noarch.rpm
Retrieving http://mirror.symnds.com/distributions/fedora-epel/6/x86_64/epel-release-6-8.noarch.rpm
warning: /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.CjOwN6: Header V3 RSA/SHA256 Signature, key ID 0608b895: NOKEY
Preparing…                ########################################### [100%]
1:epel-release           ########################################### [100%]
Now we’ll install the necessary packages:
[root@webserver ~]# yum -y install glusterfs-fuse glusterfs
Place the same hosts file in /etc/hosts as on GlusterFS nodes.  We will also create a folder /mnt/glusterfs to use as our …

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