Glusterfs

• Installation on each of the N nodes

yum install glusterfs-server
systemctl enable glusterd
systemctl start glusterd
mkdir -p /glusterfs/data /mnt/<mountpoint>

• Configure /etc/hosts with all nodes
• Connect all nodes together on each nodes

gluster peer probe nodeX
gluster peer probe nodeY

• Create a volume

gluster volume create <volume_name> replica <N> transport tcp nodeX:/glusterfs/data nodeY:/glusterfs/data ... force

• Limit mount only from localhost and start the volume

gluster volume set <volume_name> auth.allow 127.0.0.1
gluster volume start <volume_name>

• On each servers mount the volume

mount.glusterfs localhost:/<volume_name> /mnt/<mountpoint>

• Verify everything worked

gluster volume status
gluster volume info <volume_name>