Gluster 3.1 Release Notes: System Requirements

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Before installing the Gluster software, verify that your system matches the following minimum requirements:

Storage Servers

Intel/AMD x86 64-bit processor
Disk: 8GB minimum using direct-attached-storage, RAID, Amazon EBS, and FC/Infiniband/iSCSI SAN disk backends using SATA/SAS/FC disks
Memory: 1GB minimum

Networking Requirements

Gluster supports the following networks:

Fast Ethernet
Gigabit Ethernet
10 Gigabit Ethernet
InfiniBand

Operating System Requirements

GlusterFS server can run on POSIX compliant operating systems, such as GNU/Linux.

Gluster recommends Ext4 (for Linux kernel 2.6.31 or higher) and Ext3 (for all earlier versions) when formating the disk sub-subsystem. Any other POSIX compliant disk file system such as XFS or ZFS may also work, but has not been tested widely.

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