Puppet is missing a number of much-needed features. That’s the bad news. The good news is that I’ve been able to write some of these as modules that don’t need to change the Puppet core! This is an article about … Continue reading →
This is an example of how to configure an environment where you can test CloudStack and Gluster. It uses two machines on the same LAN, one acts as a KVM hypervisor and the other as storage and management server. Because the (virtual) networking in the …
This is an example of how to configure an environment where you can test CloudStack and Gluster. It uses two machines on the same LAN, one acts as a KVM hypervisor and the other as storage and management server. Because the (virtual) networking in the …
I’ll be giving a talk at SCALE today about automatically deploying GlusterFS with Puppet-Gluster and Vagrant. I’ll be giving some live demos, and this will cover some of the material from: Automatically deploying GlusterFS with Puppet-Gluster + Vagrant! and it … Continue reading →
As a part of GlusterFS 3.5 testing and hackathon, I decided to put GlusterFS inside a docker container.So I installed docker on my Fedora20 desktop and then started a Fedora container Once I am inside the container I installed GlusterFS … Continue reading →
This blog covers the steps and implementation details to use GlusterFS Samba VFS plugin. Please refer below link, If you are looking for architectural information for GlusterFS Samba VFS plugin, difference between FUSE mount vs Samba VFS plugin http://lalatendumohanty.wordpress.com/2014/04/20/glusterfs-vfs-plugin-for-samba/ I … Continue reading →
I decided to record some screencasts to show how easy it is to deploy GlusterFS using Puppet-Gluster+Vagrant. You can follow along even if you don’t know anything about Puppet or Vagrant. The hardest part of this process was producing the … Continue reading →
Just a bit over a week before the London Cloud Summit for 29 January, and we have a great line-up of speakers for the event. One small housekeeping note, we’ve had a venue change from Shoreditchworks to The Bakery, which is here: View Larger Map If you haven’t signed up yet, there are a few […]
I needed a base image “box” for my Puppet-Gluster+Vagrant work. It would have been great if good boxes already existed, and even better if it were easy to build my own. As it turns out, I wasn’t able to satisfy … Continue reading →
The GlusterFS community is having a “test day”. Puppet-Gluster+Vagrant is a great tool to help with this, and it has now been patched to support alpha, beta, qa, and rc releases! Because it was built so well (*cough*, shameless plug), … Continue reading →
Like a lot of folks, I caught the “4K is for Programmers” post off Hacker News a few days ago (it’s here, but the link seems to be borked at the moment) and got to thinking about more desktop space. Much more. My current setup, when not traveling, involves a 27″ 2560×1440 display – usually […]
Configuring Glace, Cinder and Nova for OpenStack Havana to run on GlusterFS is actually quite simple; assuming that you’ve already got GlusterFS up and running.
So lets first look at my Gluster configuration. As you can see below, I have a Gluster volume defined for Cinder, Glance and Nova.… Read the rest
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Puppet-Gluster was always about automating the deployment of GlusterFS. Getting your own Puppet server and the associated infrastructure running was never included “out of the box“. Today, it is! (This is big news!) I’ve used Vagrant to automatically build these … Continue reading →
Some fun updates for vagrant hackers… I wanted to use the venerable clustered SSH (cssh) and screen with vagrant. I decided to expand on my vsftp script. First read: Vagrant on Fedora with libvirt and Vagrant vsftp and other tricks … Continue reading →
As I previously wrote, I’ve been busy with Vagrant on Fedora with libvirt, and have even been submitting, patches and issues! (This “closed” issue needs solving!) Here are some of the tricks that I’ve used while hacking away. Default provider: … Continue reading →
This post describes modifications to the Linux Target driver to work with Gluster’s “gfapi” . It is a follow up to an earlier post on Gluster’s block IO performance over iSCSI. Those tests used FUSE, which incurred data copies and context switches. That “FUSE penalty” can be avoided using libgfapi. The libgfapi library can be inserted into the …Read more
Gluster users have different opinions on when the Gluster daemons should be restarted. This seems to be a very common discussion for a lot daemons, and pops up on the Fedora Developers mailinglist regularly.An explanation on how and when Gluster starts…
Cutting Edge, a visual effects company that’s worked on films such as The Great Gatsby and I, Frankenstein, had outgrown its NAS storage system and was in search of a way to boost its storage capacity and performance in the face of several large upcoming projects. The Australia-based firm turned to GlusterFS as an alternative …Read more
Apparently lots of people are using Vagrant these days, so I figured I’d try it out. I wanted to get it working on Fedora, and without Virtualbox. This is an intro article on Vagrant, and what I’ve done. I did … Continue reading →
CloudStack could use a Gluster environment for different kind of storage types: Primary Storage: mount over the GlusterFS native client (FUSE)This post shows how it is working and refers to the patches that make this possible.Volumes for virtual machin…