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In the previous post, I told you about the setup of making high-available cluster for Jira. In this post I will continue the same thing and tell you how to configure GlusterFS & HeartBeat to make that setup happen.
How it works
So we start with installing GlusterFS first. GlusterFs is a clustered File system which can be used for scaling the storage capacity by having distributed volumes or we can just use GlusterFS for providing high availability of storage using replicated volumes feature. In this we use multiple servers to maintain a replicated view of the main storage, so in case any one of them is down the other storage sever/node can be used.
So for our use case we would use the replicated volume to store JIRA_HOME directory and the tomcat application, which would imply that all the data is always present on more than one server at any given instance.
Before we can create replicated volumes, we should have GlusterFS server and the client which would be used by Jira to access GlusterFS setup on both the servers. In this setup we would use two servers of same configurations (memory,cpu), so that each of them can be used interchangebly as the master in case the original master crashes.
GlusterFS setup
- Install GlusterFS on both the servers. Download latest debian package from http://www.gluster.org/download/ and run following commands:
sudo apt-get install openssh-server wget nfs-common sudo dpkg -i glusterfs-3.2.0.deb
- Install Gluster Native Client, because it provides high concurrency, performance and transparent failover compared to NFS or CIFS clients. For this we should have the fuse-utils packages installed
sudo apt-get install fuse-utils