Antsle Distributed Storage - ADS
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If you want:
Highly-available, resilient storage
Access to your data across your Antsle servers
Software that runs smoothly, even if portions of your cluster go down
then ADS is right for you!
At least three Antsle servers with at least two drives each
antMan Grow+ for each Antsle server
1G Ethernet switch with a connection to each Antsle server (Make sure to activate the NIC in the Networks page)
Navigate to the Settings page.
Under Storage Settings flip the switch for ADS.
Follow the prompts through the configuration process
Add Node - Add a node to the cluster.
Nodes
Name
Description
Node
Name of the node
Include?
Select whether or not the node will be included into the cluster
Name
Description
Node
Name of the node
IP Address
IP Address ADS will use to make connections. The IP address selected should be the IP address assigned to the port connected to the 10G Ethernet switch.
Device
Block device to be managed by ADS
Once you've gone through the configuration steps, antMan will install ADS in the background. To check the status of the ADS installation, check the Jobs menu at the top-right of the screen.
Do not get an InstantSSL for any of the nodes in the ADS cluster as the nginx configuration will intercept the ADS cluster communication.
If you lose communication with antMan run the following command on the antsle's command line:
firewall-cmd --permanent --zone=public --add-port=3000/tcp
With ADS installed, you can create ADS Drives. ADS Drives are highly-available, distributed filesystems that can be mounted from multiple antlets. Saving data to this filesystem on any one antlet will be available for all other mounted antlets to access. Data in an ADS Drive will be available, even if some portion of the Antsle servers are down.
Click +
Create to Create an ADS Drive
Name
Description
Name
Name of the ADS Drive
Size
Size of the ADS Drive. If 0 is chosen, no size limit will be configured, and ADS will store data on the ADS Drive until there is no more available space.
Click the Edit
button to Edit an ADS Drive
Name
Description
Name
Name of the ADS Drive
Size
Size of the ADS Drive. If 0 is chosen, no size limit will be configured, and ADS will store data on the ADS Drive until there is no more available space.
Click Delete to Delete an ADS Drive
Click Yes, Delete this ADS Drive! to confirm deletion.
After a Virtual NIC is configured, and the default gateway is set appropriately, you can mount the ADS Drive using the following command:
mount -t ceph 192.168.0.9:6789:/test-drive /mnt/
replacing:
Example
Description
192.168.0.9
IP address of any node in the cluster
test-drive
name of the ADS Drive you want to mount
/mnt/
mountpoint of your choice inside the antlet
In order to mount an ADS Drive, an antlet must be able to access the ADS cluster. For example, if an ADS cluster is in the 192.168.0.0/24 subnet, then the antlet where you'd like to mount the ADS Drive must also be in that subnet. To accomplish this, see this guide on how to .