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package types;

import org.ovirt.api.metamodel.annotations.Type;

/**
 * Type representing the type of Gluster Volume.
 *
 * @author Ramesh Nachimuthu 
 * @date 12 Dec 2016
 * @status added
 */
@Type
public enum GlusterVolumeType {
    /**
     * Distributed volumes distributes files throughout the bricks in the volume.
     *
     * Distributed volumes can be used where the requirement is to scale storage and the redundancy is either not
     * important or is provided by other hardware/software layers.
     *
     * @author Ramesh Nachimuthu 
     * @date 12 Dec 2016
     * @status added
     */
    DISTRIBUTE,

    /**
     * Replicated volumes replicates files across bricks in the volume.
     *
     * Replicated volumes can be used in environments where high-availability and high-reliability are critical.
     *
     * @author Ramesh Nachimuthu 
     * @date 12 Dec 2016
     * @status added
     */
    REPLICATE,

    /**
     * Distributed replicated volumes distributes files across replicated bricks in the volume.
     *
     * Distributed replicated volumes can be used in environments where the requirement is to scale storage and
     * high-reliability is critical. Distributed replicated volumes also offer improved read performance in most
     * environments.
     *
     * @author Ramesh Nachimuthu 
     * @date 12 Dec 2016
     * @status added
     */
    DISTRIBUTED_REPLICATE,

    /**
     * Striped volumes stripes data across bricks in the volume.
     *
     * For best results, striped volumes should only in high concurrency environments accessing very large files.
     *
     * Note: With the introduction of Sharding in Glusterfs 3.7 releases, striped volumes are not recommended and it
     * will be removed in future release.
     *
     * @author Ramesh Nachimuthu 
     * @date 12 Dec 2016
     * @status added
     */
    STRIPE,

    /**
     * Distributed striped volumes stripe data across two or more nodes in the cluster.
     *
     * Distributed striped volumes should be used where the requirement is to scale storage and in high concurrency
     * environments accessing very large files is critical.
     *
     * Note: With the introduction of Sharding in Glusterfs 3.7 releases, striped volumes are not recommended and it
     * will be removed in future release.
     *
     * @author Ramesh Nachimuthu 
     * @date 12 Dec 2016
     * @status added
     */
    DISTRIBUTED_STRIPE,

    /**
     * Striped replicated volumes stripes data across replicated bricks in the cluster.
     *
     * For best results, striped replicated volumes should be used in highly concurrent environments where there is
     * parallel access of very large files and performance is critical.
     *
     * Note: With the introduction of Sharding in Glusterfs 3.7 releases, striped volumes are not recommended and it
     * will be removed in future release.
     *
     * @author Ramesh Nachimuthu 
     * @date 12 Dec 2016
     * @status added
     */
    STRIPED_REPLICATE,

    /**
     * Distributed striped replicated volumes distributes striped data across replicated bricks in the cluster.
     *
     * For best results, distributed striped replicated volumes should be used in highly concurrent environments where
     * parallel access of very large files and performance is critical.
     *
     * Note: With the introduction of Sharding in Glusterfs 3.7 releases, striped volumes are not recommended and it
     * will be removed in future release.
     *
     * @author Ramesh Nachimuthu 
     * @date 12 Dec 2016
     * @status added
     */
    DISTRIBUTED_STRIPED_REPLICATE,

    /**
     * Dispersed volumes are based on erasure codes, providing space-efficient protection against disk or server
     * failures.
     *
     * Dispersed volumes an encoded fragment of the original file to each brick in a way that only a subset of the
     * fragments is needed to recover the original file. The number of bricks that can be missing without losing access
     * to data is configured by the administrator on volume creation time.
     *
     * @author Ramesh Nachimuthu 
     * @date 12 Dec 2016
     * @status added
     */
    DISPERSE,

    /**
     * Distributed dispersed volumes distribute files across dispersed subvolumes.
     *
     * This has the same advantages of distribute replicate volumes, but using disperse to store the data into the
     * bricks.
     *
     * @author Ramesh Nachimuthu 
     * @date 12 Dec 2016
     * @status added
     */
    DISTRIBUTED_DISPERSE;
}