# Share volume data accross multipe hosts

**URL:** <https://forums.suse.com/t/share-volume-data-accross-multipe-hosts/98>\
**Category:** Rancher 1.x\
**Created:** [July 15, 2015, 11:19pm UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/share-volume-data-accross-multipe-hosts/98 "2015-07-15T23:19:11Z")\
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**Author:** ![renaudManda](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex022/user_avatar/forums.suse.com/renaudmanda/32/2444_2.png) [@renaudManda](https://forums.suse.com/u/renaudManda)\
**Post date:** [July 15, 2015, 11:19pm UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/share-volume-data-accross-multipe-hosts/98/1 "2015-07-15T23:19:11Z")

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Hello,

What is the best way to deploy volume data accross multiple hosts ?

Thanks,  
Renaud

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**Author:** ![willchan](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex022/user_avatar/forums.suse.com/willchan/32/2856_2.png) [@willchan](https://forums.suse.com/u/willchan)\
**Post date:** [July 16, 2015, 4:22pm UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/share-volume-data-accross-multipe-hosts/98/2 "2015-07-16T16:22:21Z")

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Hi Renaud,

I’m not 100% clear on what you are asking. Are you asking:

- whether a volume can attach volumes across hosts? That is something that Docker doesn’t do by default. We will be launching some new features that will allow storage access across hosts in the near future.
- whether you can deploy a data container via Rancher and ensure that it lands on the same host as your “consuming” container? You can achieve this by using affinity rules or if you are launching containers via services, you can use our new “sidekicks” features to ensure that data containers are co-located with the “consuming” services.

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**Author:** ![renaudManda](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex022/user_avatar/forums.suse.com/renaudmanda/32/2444_2.png) [@renaudManda](https://forums.suse.com/u/renaudManda)\
**Post date:** [July 17, 2015, 12:28am UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/share-volume-data-accross-multipe-hosts/98/3 "2015-07-17T00:28:22Z")

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Hi,

Yes you perfectly understood my question 😉 You speak a very well “french-glish” 🙂

So my concern is about your first point, and I realize that’s not a rancher question but maybe a docker’s design pattern using rancher.

My goal is to distribute on n-hosts an application. But this app use a volume-app to store dynamic data. To do scaling (or failover) I wish to be able to the couple “docker-app + docker-volume” on these n-hosts and sync.

I don’t really no if it’s a good approach in a docker world and maybe I reproduce what I do with VM/physical servers.

Thanks for your help,  
Cheers,  
Renaud

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**Author:** ![willchan](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex022/user_avatar/forums.suse.com/willchan/32/2856_2.png) [@willchan](https://forums.suse.com/u/willchan)\
**Post date:** [July 17, 2015, 1:54am UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/share-volume-data-accross-multipe-hosts/98/4 "2015-07-17T01:54:38Z")

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We will be coming out with some exciting volume solutions to exactly deal with your fail-over scenario of moving data across hosts. Look for it in the upcoming weeks.

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**Author:** ![renaudManda](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex022/user_avatar/forums.suse.com/renaudmanda/32/2444_2.png) [@renaudManda](https://forums.suse.com/u/renaudManda)\
**Post date:** [September 24, 2015, 10:06pm UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/share-volume-data-accross-multipe-hosts/98/5 "2015-09-24T22:06:44Z")

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Hello, any news about this feature ?

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**Author:** ![pwFoo](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex022/user_avatar/forums.suse.com/pwfoo/32/2884_2.png) [@pwFoo](https://forums.suse.com/u/pwFoo)\
**Post date:** [October 11, 2015, 10:28am UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/share-volume-data-accross-multipe-hosts/98/6 "2015-10-11T10:28:47Z")

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I’d be interested too.

@renaudManda  
Convoy volume plugin provide backup / restore / snapshot to migrate Volumens to other hosts.

Flicker could be the volume plugin you searching for. Haven’t tested it, but it should take care about multi host available volumes.  
Also network storage (NFS, Ceph) should be a solution for shared volumes and multi host setup.

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**Author:** ![Tlvenn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/34f0e0/32.png) [@Tlvenn](https://forums.suse.com/u/Tlvenn)\
**Post date:** [October 11, 2015, 3:57pm UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/share-volume-data-accross-multipe-hosts/98/7 "2015-10-11T15:57:45Z")

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Read Flocker and not Flicker 😉

> [KING138 ## Situs Penyedia Pragmatic Play PG Soft dan No Limit City Terlengkap](https://clusterhq.com/flocker/introduction/)

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**Author:** ![pwFoo](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex022/user_avatar/forums.suse.com/pwfoo/32/2884_2.png) [@pwFoo](https://forums.suse.com/u/pwFoo)\
**Post date:** [October 11, 2015, 4:13pm UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/share-volume-data-accross-multipe-hosts/98/8 "2015-10-11T16:13:26Z")

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Sorry, android spellchecker auto corrected Flocker to Flicker… 😕

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**Author:** ![lavvy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/ba9def/32.png) [@lavvy](https://forums.suse.com/u/lavvy)\
**Post date:** [October 11, 2015, 7:54pm UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/share-volume-data-accross-multipe-hosts/98/9 "2015-10-11T19:54:02Z")

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+1. Me too. I am actually wondering if rancher has any plans for a rancher supported distributed storage solution in its roadmap.

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**Author:** ![sdlarsen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f14d63/32.png) [@sdlarsen](https://forums.suse.com/u/sdlarsen)\
**Post date:** [October 16, 2015, 7:19am UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/share-volume-data-accross-multipe-hosts/98/10 "2015-10-16T07:19:38Z")

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+1

I’d be particularly interested in integration with Flocker. It might even be that supporting Flocker would mean that supporting Docker storage plugins would be supported.

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**Author:** ![nrithyam](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex022/user_avatar/forums.suse.com/nrithyam/32/387_2.png) [@nrithyam](https://forums.suse.com/u/nrithyam)\
**Post date:** [October 21, 2015, 9:16am UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/share-volume-data-accross-multipe-hosts/98/11 "2015-10-21T09:16:13Z")

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+1 I would be intrested too, currently leveraging my application using Flocker.

Any updates on this feature yet??. 😉

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**Author:** ![dominikhahn](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex022/user_avatar/forums.suse.com/dominikhahn/32/745_2.png) [@dominikhahn](https://forums.suse.com/u/dominikhahn)\
**Post date:** [January 8, 2016, 2:53pm UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/share-volume-data-accross-multipe-hosts/98/12 "2016-01-08T14:53:14Z")

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GlusterFS & convoy

Have a look over here: [rancher docs](http://docs.rancher.com/rancher/rancher-services/storage-service/)

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**Author:** ![pwFoo](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex022/user_avatar/forums.suse.com/pwfoo/32/2884_2.png) [@pwFoo](https://forums.suse.com/u/pwFoo)\
**Post date:** [June 17, 2016, 7:24am UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/share-volume-data-accross-multipe-hosts/98/13 "2016-06-17T07:24:23Z")

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Is there a more detailed documentation about Longhorn?

A multi host Volumen sync solution is searched for the near future.
