There are a variety of strategies one can employ to improve the performance of GlusterFS self-heal procedures. Gluster community member Semiosis weighs in with one he dubs targeted self-heal: The canonical repair procedure (find /client/mount -print0 &…
If you use GlusterFS, you know that there are several types of volumes you can create: Distributed – Distributes files throughout the bricks in the volume. For more information, see Creating Distributed Volumes. Replicated – Replicates files ac…
Community linchpin Jjulian has posted a helpful HOWTO on How GlusterFS NFS works when migrating a virtual IP in a replicated volume: How Virtual IP Migration works with GlusterFS NFS and a replicated volume: Given [a] simple setup, where a client is co…
Leading Information Communications Technology services company adds GlusterFS to portfolio to deliver a high-performance, scale-out storage system to help organizations control rising storage costs Gluster, the leading provider of scale-out, open sourc…
Gluster has partnered with Redapt, Inc., an innovative data center architecture and infrastructure solutions provider, to integrate GlusterFS with hardware providing customers with highly-scalable NAS storage technology for on-premise, virtual and clou…
There’s another great post on the community Q&A site – this one about NFS performance, excessive load times for PHP-based web sites, and the Fuse client. This was written by Joe Julian, our resident IRC chairman and all-around Gluster s…
One of our support engineer gurus, Harsha, has published a very detailed post on tuning parameters for the Linux kernel that may impact your GlusterFS performance. Here’s his introduction: Every now and then, questions come up here internally and…
Gluster has been awarded yet another award, coming on the heels of accolades from Storage Magazine, Citrix Synergy, and TiE50, to name just a few. This time, it’s a Bossie, which are handed out annually by Infoworld to the most deserving Open Sou…
Storage systems manufacturer adds GlusterFS to deliver high-performance, scale-out storage system to help organizations control rising storage costs Sunnyvale, Calif. – September 13, 2011 – Gluster, the leading provider of scale-out, open source st…
You may have heard of an oddly named storage product from IBM called SONAS. It stands for Scale-Out NAS. I’m concerned that, like with so many other monolithic products, SONAS may be out of gas–as Hitachi Data Systems fills up its tank with high…
Leading open source storage provider’s scale-out NAS solution recognized as one of the best open source data center and cloud software solutions of the year Sunnyvale, Calif. – September 8, 2011 – Gluster, the leading provider of scale-out, open …
Leading systems integrator to distribute Gluster’s high performance, highly scalable storage technology to better address today’s storage requirements Sunnyvale, Calif. – September 7, 2011 – Gluster, the leading provider of scale-out, o…
Have you ever wished you could get paid for all your hours spent on our forums, mailing lists and IRC channel? Keep dreaming! Well, unless we hire you, that is (seriously). But when it comes to rewarding our community members, we’re going to open…
As I watch, from afar, all of the social media activity around VMworld, I’m reminded of those buzzword-compliant resumes we used to contemplate back in the days when online job boards first became popular. Several of us would lament that our resu…
Continuing with the theme of unearthing useful tidbits on the internet, I came across a post from Giovanni Toraldo about using GlusterFS with ZFS on Debian/Ubuntu Linux. Why would someone want to do this? With OpenSolaris’ future essentially over…
It’s that time again! Time for another Gluster for Geeks webinar. Webinar will be on Thursday, August 25, 10am PDT / 1pm EDT / 17:00 UTC In this Gluster for Geeks technical webinar, Jacob Shucart, Senior Systems Engineer, will provide useful tips…
The term "big data," is getting thrown around a lot these days, and in certain circles it is threatening to overtake "cloud" as the most overused and misused term in IT.
Interestingly, some of the large, traditional storage vendors…
By now you may have heard our announcement that GlusterFS 3.3 will be able to serve as a scale-out data store for Apache Hadoop. This is one area where a solution has been sorely needed, and we’re happy to provide one. Here’s the relevant p…
Expands data access options with addition of open source, scale-out NAS and object-based file access for Hadoop deployments Sunnyvale, Calif. – August 23, 2011 – Gluster, the leading provider of scale-out, open source storage solutions, today annou…
Leading storage provider chosen for its open source, software-only, scale-out NAS storage solution for on-premise, virtual, public and private cloud environments Sunnyvale, Calif. – August 22, 2011 – Gluster, the leading provider of scale-out, open…