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Gluster Storage for Oracle® Linux

User's Guide for Release 3.12

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F10040-04

June 2019

Table of Contents

1 Introduction to Gluster Storage for Oracle Linux

1.1 About Gluster Storage for Oracle Linux

2 Installing Gluster Storage for Oracle Linux

2.1 Hardware and Network Requirements

2.2 Operating System Requirements

2.3 Enabling Access to the Gluster Storage for Oracle Linux Packages

2.4 Installing and Configuring Gluster

2.4.1 Preparing Oracle Linux Nodes
2.4.2 Installing the Gluster Server

3 Using Gluster Storage for Oracle Linux

3.1 Creating the Gluster Trusted Storage Pool

3.2 Setting up Transport Layer Security (TLS)

3.3 Creating Gluster Volumes

3.3.1 Creating Distributed Volumes
3.3.2 Creating Replicated Volumes
3.3.3 Creating Distributed Replicated Volumes
3.3.4 Creating Dispersed Volumes
3.3.5 Creating Distributed Dispersed Volumes

3.4 Managing Gluster Volumes

3.4.1 Setting Volume Options
3.4.2 Starting a Volume
3.4.3 Stopping a Volume
3.4.4 Self Healing a Replicated Volume
3.4.5 Expanding a Volume
3.4.6 Shrinking a Volume
3.4.7 Deleting a Volume

3.5 Monitoring Gluster Volumes

3.5.1 Using the Volume Status Command
3.5.2 Using the Volume Profile Command
3.5.3 Using the Volume Top Command

3.6 Accessing Gluster Volumes

3.6.1 Accessing Volumes using the Gluster Native Client (FUSE)
3.6.2 Accessing Volumes using Samba

Gluster Terminology