I’m here in New Orleans hacking up a storm and getting to meet fellow gluster users IRL. John Mark Walker started off with a great “State of the GlusterFS union” style talk. Today Louis (semiosis) gave a great talk about … Continue reading →
After hacking away on Monday and Tuesday and meeting fellow nerds IRL, I’ve landed even more changes to puppet-gluster. My git master branch now sits at 47 commits. $ git clone https://github.com/purpleidea/puppet-gluster.git Cloning into ‘puppet-gluster’… remote: Counting objects: 317, done. … Continue reading →
Continuing on from yesterday, I’ve met even more interesting people. I chatted with Dianne Mueller about some interesting ideas for gluster+openshift. More to come on that front soon. Hung out with Jono Bacon and talked a bit about puppet-gluster on … Continue reading →
I’m here in New Orleans at Linux Con, hacking on puppet-gluster and talking to lots of interesting folks. I’ve met gluster hacker Theron Conrey, and my host John Mark Walker, Fedora and Raspberry Pi experts Spot and Ruth Suehle, and many … Continue reading →
Last Saturday on 14th September’13 I gave on GlusterFS presentation at LSPE-IN. The title for the presentation was Performance Characterization in Large distributed file system with GlusterFS . Few days before the talk I looked at the attendee list to get the … Continue reading →
Next week is a big one for Linux and Open Cloud practitioners and enthusiasts: It’s the annual North American LinuxCon (and CloudOpen), put on by the Linux Foundation – and, following LinuxCon, the Gluster community is putting on a Gluster Community Day on September 19th. Naturally, LinuxCon is on my “don’t miss” list of events, […]
Hey there, I’ve done a bit of puppet-gluster hacking lately to try to squeeze some extra features and testing in before Linuxcon. Here’s a short list: SELinux fixes to keep Dan Walsh happy 🙂 Ping and status checks before volume … Continue reading →
John Mark Walker, (from Redhat) has been kind enough to invite me to speak at the Linuxcon Gluster Workshop in New Orleans. I’ll be speaking about puppet-gluster, giving demos, and hopefully showing off some new features. I’m also looking forward … Continue reading →
As described in my previous blog post, QEMU supports talking to GlusterFS using libgfapi which is a much better way to use GlusterFS to host VM images than using the FUSE mount to access GlusterFS volumes. However due to some bugs that exist in GlusterFS-3.4, any invalid specification of GlusterFS drive on QEMU command line […]
(NOTE: if you’re interested in contributing or presenting at the community day, add your ideas in the comments) The Summer of Gluster continues! We’re happy to announce a Community Day for San Francisco on Tuesday, August 27 at Rackspace’s SOMA office in San Francisco. RSVP here. Thanks to Rackspace for agreeing to host – this …Read more
In my last blog post on QEMU-GlusterFS, I described the integration of QEMU with GlusterFS using libgfapi. In this post, I give an overview of the recently added discard support to QEMU’s GlusterFS back-end and how it can be used. Newer SCSI devices support UNMAP command that is used to return the unused/freed blocks back […]
Anyone who knows me knows, that I’ve been a VMware user for a long time. I’ve spent a large chunk of my career building virtualization solutions for different companies based on VMware tech. I’ve been active in the VMware community, and I’ve got to say it’s one of the healthiest I’ve seen in a long… Read more »
I wanted to take a moment and share all the things that are going on in the Gluster Community. It really has been an amazing year, and we’re only halfway through. Here’s a recap for those of you watching from home: Launched the Gluster Community Forge in early May – http://forge.gluster.org/ as of now, there …Read more
I’ve been a little slow in making release announcements, so here’s some news: I’ve just released the third stage of my puppet-ipa module. At the moment it now supports installation, managing of hosts, and managing of services. It integrates with … Continue reading →
In response to some discussion in the gluster community, I am releasing my puppet-lsi module. It’s quite simple, but it is very useful for rebuilding machines. It could do a lot more, but I wanted to depend on the proprietary … Continue reading →
Heading to LinuxCon Japan 2013? If you’ll be attending the conference or will be in Tokyo on May 31st, we’d like to welcome you at the Gluster Community Workshop. We’ll have a full day of talks on all things Gluster, including: Creating a Shared Storage Service with GlusterFS by Keisuke Takahashi Converged Infrastructure: Leveraging oVirt …Read more
Knowing when to release and deploy your code can turn into a complicated discussion. In general, In general, I tend to support releasing early and often, for some value of $early and $often. I’ve decided to keep this simple and … Continue reading →
A few of our projects recently called for a distributed file-system that provided high availability and redundancy. After a tip off from a fellow techie and a quick browse around the net it appeared that a solution called GlusterFS appeared to tick all the boxes for what we were wanting. However setting it up turned […]
Gluster is a distributed filesystem that works well in the cloud. This post explains how to configure GlusterFS on an Ubuntu 12.04 image running in HP’s cloud.
Using this setup, I gain all the benefits of a distributed and replicated (redundant) filesy…
I just wrapped up my presentation at the Gluster Workshop at CERN where I discussed Open Source advantages in tackling converged infrastructure challenges. Here is my slidedeck. Just a quick heads up, there’s some animation that’s lost in the pdf export as well as color commentary during almost every slide. During the presentation I demo’ed… Read more »