If you saw our Gluster Spotlight (“Integration Nation”) last week, you’ll recall that Javi and Jaime from the OpenNebula project were discussing their recent advances with GlusterFS and libgfapi access. Here’s a post where they go into some detail about it: The good news is that for some time now qemu and libvirt have native …Read more

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

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