What you need for this book

The list of hardware components required is given as follows:

• A minimum of two servers are required. Three servers are needed if you want to test a Gluster filesystem.
• A shared storage that is accessible on all the servers as a quorum disk and as VM storage.
• Two network cards on each server.
• Two network switches.

The software needed for this book are as follows:

• Proxmox Virtual Environment 3.2 or above
• NAS4Free 9.2.0.1 or an alternative to build a software-based NAS storage
• DRBD 2:8.3.13-2 or above
• GlusterFS 3.5.1 or above
• CEPH (built with Proxmox)