We’re pleased to announce availability of a highly available network filesystem (NFS) cluster with automated failover and no data replication to deliver high availability. On Oracle Cloud Infrastructure, you can achieve 50% savings in storage cost, by using Shared Block Storage, instead of Distributed Replicated Block Device (DRBD) , which require double storage capacity. With Shared Block Storage, you can attach block volumes to multiple Compute instances in a shareable read and write mode.
The following architecture shows how to deploy an NFS cluster using bare metal nodes with two network interface controllers (NICs)—in this case, two private subnets. The NICs segregate and separate data traffic between the NFS server and storage devices and between NFS clients and servers.
For the high-level architecture to deploy an NFS cluster on virtual machines, a single-node bare metal NFS server, or a single-node virtual machine NFS server, refer to the GitHub documentation.
For optimal performance, we recommend using bare metal standard Compute shapes. With two physical NICs at 25 Gbps each on bare metal shapes, data traffic between NFS server and storage devices can be segregated from data traffic between NFS clients and servers. We also support virtual machines for NFS file servers.
You can deploy an NFS with 1 petabyte (1 PB) storage capacity. Oracle Cloud Infrastructure offers network attached Shared Block Volumes, which can be attached to multiple Compute instances in shareable read and write mode to build an active or passive high availability NFS server with automated failover.
You can easily deploy the NFS cluster in a few minutes through the Oracle Cloud Marketplace or Terraform template in a new or existing VCN. Network-attached Block Volume storage, more durable and highly available, are used for persistent filesystems, versus local nonvolatile memory express solid-state drives (NVMe SSDs) for Scratch filesystem. To deploy a highly available NFS cluster, select the persistent filesystem type, and select “Active/Passive Highly Available.” The solution also supports deploying a single node NFS server using either Block Volume storage or local NVMe SSDs. For single-node NFS servers, select the persistent filesystem type and uncheck “Active/Passive Highly Available” or select the Scratch filesystem type.
Every use case is different. The only way to know if Oracle Cloud Infrastructure is right for you is to try it. To try, you can select either Oracle Cloud Free Tier or 30-day free trial (with US$300 in credit) to get you started with a range of services, including compute, storage, and network.
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