A few of us will be attending the OpenStack Summit in Paris  next week. OpenStack Storage continues to be an area of interest for GlusterFS and we will be investigating further integration possibilities of GlusterFS with the broad OpenStack ecosystem as we attend the summit. As you might be aware, GlusterFS already is tightly integrated …Read more

      Hey folks We’re having a Gluster event in Paris on 4-November, to get together and celebrate a number of new technologies, including the GlusterFS 3.6.0 release. Sign up here: http://www.eventbrite.com/e/inscription-gluster-night-paris-10413255327?aff=es2&rank=0 Our agenda is pretty packed: Event opens at 18:00 18:00 Drinks, snacks and chats 18:15 : Overview of 3.6.0 new features 18:25 …Read more

Diversity is important to communities. Diversity adds new ideas, new concepts, innovative approaches and unique values. Open source thrives on those same things, and open source communities need to recognize and strive to increase their own diversity. Today, I’d like to share “A Challenge to the Open Storage Community” from Sage Weil. Sage is talking specifically …Read more

RPMS are now available for GlusterFS 3.4.5 beta2. We have them for EL5, EL6, EL7, F19, F20, F21, F22 at download.gluster.org [1] with yum repos. [1] http://download.gluster.org/pub/gluster/glusterfs/qa-releases/3.4.5beta2/ This is a bugfix release, mainly for resolving these two important bugs: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1116514 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1116503 All users of GlusterFS 3.4.x are strongly encouraged to test this version, then report …Read more

GlusterFS 3.4.5beta1 RPMs for el5-7 (RHEL, CentOS, etc.) and Fedora (19, 20, 21/rawhide), are now available in YUM repos at http://download.gluster.org/pub/gluster/glusterfs/qa-releases/3.4.5beta1/ These packages include the fix for bz# https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1112844 All users of GlusterFS 3.4.x are strongly encouraged to test this version. We welcome your suggestions/comments/feedback about this release through the GlusterFS Developers mailing list. Mailing …Read more

GlusterFS 3.5.1 RPMs are now available: http://download.gluster.org/pub/gluster/glusterfs/LATEST/ Please go through release notes of 3.5.1 [1] for more information about this release. [1] http://www.gluster.org/2014/06/glusterfs-3-5-1-has-been-released/ All users of GlusterFS 3.5.x are strongly encouraged to upgrade. We welcome your suggestions/comments/feedback about this release through the GlusterFS Developers mailing list. Mailing list information is here: http://www.gluster.org/interact/mailinglists/

We are seeing significant interest and traction in GlusterFS working on more unix distributions. To encourage this, we’re adding maintainers for the various ports so far. 🙂 We are glad to announce the following individuals, who have been chugging GlusterFS along on those distributions, have readily agreed to be port maintainers. Please welcome: 1. Emmanuel …Read more

GlusterFS 3.4.4-2 RPMs are now available:     http://download.gluster.org/pub/gluster/glusterfs/3.4/LATEST These packages include the fix (http://review.gluster.org/#/c/8029/) for Bugzilla issue # 961615:     https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=961615 All users of GlusterFS 3.4.x are strongly encouraged to upgrade. We welcome your suggestions/comments/feedback about this release through the GlusterFS Developers mailing list. Mailing list information is here:     http://www.gluster.org/interact/mailinglists/

We need beta testers for Gluster 3.5.1 beta2. Source tarball and RPM’s are available:     https://download.gluster.org/pub/gluster/glusterfs/qa-releases/3.5.1beta2/     http://bits.gluster.org/pub/gluster/glusterfs/src/glusterfs-3.5.1beta2.tar.gz Please try it out on your (non-production!) systems, and attempt to break it. 😀 Results should be reported to the GlusterFS Developers mailing list: gluster-devel@gluster.org.

FIO (Flexible I/O Tester) is a popular I/O benchmark tool. It generates sequential/random read/write/trim synchronously or asynchronously. It supports client/server mode and can spawn multiple worker threads. FIO supports different IO engines. Previously, FIO runs against Gluster FUSE mount. This doesn’t yield the optimal performance due to the overhead associated with FUSE. But now it …Read more

This post describes recent tests done by Red Hat on an 84 node gluster volume.  Our experiments measured performance characteristics and management behavior. To our knowledge, this is the largest performance test ever done under controlled conditions within the organization (we have heard of larger clusters in the community but do not know any details about them). Red Hat officially …Read more

This post explores the question: “how can gluster utilize SSDs” ? It does this by reviewing three tests done by the Red Hat performance group. In each test SSDs were used in a different configuration. The tests varied by cost of ownership and tunability. The LSI Nytro MegaRAID 8110-4e card was used for testing on …Read more

Join us on March 4 for the Gluster Community seminar and learn how to improve your storage. This half day seminar brings you in-depth presentations, use cases, demos and developer content presented by Gluster Community experts. REGISTRATION Register today for this free half-day seminar and reserve your seat since spaces are limited. Click here to …Read more

The first GlusterFS 3.5 Beta is here! See what features made it in over at the 3.5 planning page. Here are some of the marquee features: File Snapshot Quota Scalability Brick Failure Detection On-wire Compression and Decompression Disk Encryption With this first beta, we’ll have the next weekend GlusterFest! We’ll kick it off on Friday, …Read more

As we ring in the new year, we also ring in a new release – GlusterFS 3.4.2, available at your local download server! This is a maintenance release, fixing a few bugs, which you can read in the release notes. In addition to bug fixes, you’ll notice that we’re welcoming a new distribution to the …Read more

Cutting Edge, a visual effects company that’s worked on films such as The Great Gatsby and I, Frankenstein, had outgrown its NAS storage system and was in search of a way to boost its storage capacity and performance in the face of several large upcoming projects. The Australia-based firm turned to GlusterFS as an alternative …Read more

If you’ve been keeping up with our weekly meetings and the 3.5 planning page, then you know that tomorrow, December 6, is the first testing “day” for 3.5. But since this is a Friday, we’re going to make the party last all weekend, through mid-day Monday. Here’s what you need to do: Take a look …Read more

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 glusterfs-hadoop team is pleased to announce that the Apache Ambari project now supports the automated deployment and configuration of Hadoop on top of GlusterFS. What is Apache Ambari? Apache Ambari is a browser based Hadoop Management Web UI that is used to provision, manage and monitor Hadoop clusters. Once Apache Ambari is installed on …Read more

As the GlusterFest winds down today, I wanted to write a few words about GlusterFS 3.4 and the beta that was just released yesterday. You may have noticed the news release from Red Hat: The Red Hat Storage team would like to congratulate the Gluster Community on the beta release of GlusterFS 3.4. With new …Read more