The release source tar file and packages for Fedora {20,21,rawhide}, RHEL/CentOS {5,6,7}, Debian {wheezy,jessie}, Pidora2014, and Raspbian wheezy are available at http://download.gluster.org/pub/gluster/glusterfs/3.6/3.6.2/ (Ubuntu packages will be available soon.) This release fixes the following bugs. Thanks to all who submitted bugs and patches and reviewed the changes. 1184191 – Cluster/DHT : Fixed crash due to null …Read more

With technologies around Open Software-defined Storage emerging as the way to get things done in the cloud, we’ve noticed strong interest in how to take advantage of this emerging software space. Storage is changing from the proprietary, expensive box in the corner to a set of APIs and open source software deployed in a scale-out …Read more

Deploying an open source enterprise cloud just got a little bit easier yesterday with the release of the newest version of the OpenStack platform: Icehouse. To quote an email from OpenStack rele…

Setting up an application server in the cloud isn’t that hard if you’re familiar with the tools and your application’s requirements. But what if you needed to do it dozens or hundreds of times, …

How an open source project is governed can matter just as much as the features it supports, the speed at which it runs, or the code that underlies it. Some open source projects have what we migh…

When reading a recent article by Red Hat CEO Jim Whitehurst, I was struck by a comparison made between OpenStack and the interstate highway system. The article in Wall Street and Technology…

Introduction I recently tried to set up OpenStack with docker as the hypervisor on a single node and I ran into mountains of trouble.  I tried with DevStack and entirely failed using both the master branch and stable/havana.  After much work I was able to launch container but the network was not right.  Ultimately I […]

Here are the Gluster-related abstracts that have been submitted for the OpenStack Summit in May in Atlanta. Check them out and vote! Use Case: OpenStack + GlusterFS on TryStack.org “The Gluster community has made huge strides to support backing an openstack installation’s storage with GlusterFS. TryStack.org has implimented GlusterFS as it’s storage backend. In this …Read more

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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The OpenCompute systems are the the ideal hardware platform for distributed filesystems. Period. Why? Cheap servers with 10GB NIC’s and a boatload of locally attached cheap storage!

In preparation for deploying RedHat RDO on RHEL, the distributed filesystem I chose was GlusterFS.… Read the rest

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If you’ve been following the Gluster and Ceph communities for any length of time, you know that we have similar visions for open software-defined storage and are becoming more competitive with each passing day. We have been rivals in a similar space for some time, but on friendly terms – and for a couple of …Read more

The Gluster Community would like to congratulate the OpenStack Foundation and developers on the Havana release. With performance-boosting enhancements for OpenStack Block Storage (Cinder), Compute (Nova) and Image Service (Glance), as well as a native template language for OpenStack Orchestration (Heat), the OpenStack Havana release points the way to continued momentum for the OpenStack community. …Read more

Slides used by me for the talk on “Distributed Storage in OpenStack” during the recent OpenStack India Day 2013 event can be found here.  The presentation uses GlusterFS as an example for distributed storage and discusses integration between GlusterFS and various OpenStack components.

In the up coming Havana release of OpenStack Virtual Machine images can be downloaded a lot more efficiently.  This post will explain how to configure Glance and Nova so that VM images can be directly copied via the file system instead of routing all of the data over HTTP. Historically How An Image Becomes a […]

Several talks related to the Gluster Community have been proposed for the OpenStack Summit in Hong Kong in November. You have to vote for your favorites so that we can be sure to get on the program. Remember to vote early and often! Proposed Talks: Shared Storage: Data Availability Across Clouds and Traditional Datacenters Scaling …Read more

For development of Glance I have recently been using the publicly available Fedora 19 VM which RDO made available here.  From time to time I have found that I need to boot the VM clean (eg: verifying that my environment is not influencing recent changes etc).  In this brief post I will describe how to […]

A few months back I installed RDO on a Fedora 18 and it just worked!  Unfortunately I ran into a few blockers when trying to install it on Fedora 19.  In this post I will describe my experiences of setting up RDO on Fedora 19 and how I made it work. Cheat-Sheet Here is the set […]

When I first started working on OpenStack I spent too much time trying to find a good development environment. I even started a series of blog posts (that I never finished) talking about how I rolled my own development environments. I had messed around with devstack a bit, but I had a hard time configuring […]

In this post I will be exploring the current state of quality of service (QoS) in OpenStack.  I will be looking at both what is possible now and what is on the horizon and targeted for the Havana release.  Note that I am truly only intimately familiar with Glance and thus part of the intention […]

We are very pleased to inform you that GlusterFS 3.4 has now hit GA! This marks an incredible milestone for the Gluster community, and pushes GlusterFS into exciting new directions, including virtual block storage, OpenStack integration and a lot more. -> Download here. Changes Of Note Improvements for Virtual Machine Image Storage A number of …Read more