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GlusterFS is a scale-out NAS file system that runs over Ethernet or Infiniband RDMA interconnect. GlusterFS is now owned by Red Hat.

GlusterFS is a scale-out NAS file system. It is free software, licensed under the GNU GPL v3. It aggregates various storage servers over Ethernet or Infiniband RDMA interconnect into one large parallel network file system. GlusterFS is based on a stackable user space design without compromising performance. It has found a variety of applications including cloud computing, biomedical sciences and archival storage. GlusterFS was developed originally by Gluster, Inc., then by Red Hat, Inc., after their purchase of Gluster in 2011.

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Cluster vs Virtualization

I’m working in releasing a video hosting website (files are from webcams) Each file size will be less than 1 mb. I would like to be able to easily extend my storage capacity and have high availability. I will use dedicated servers from OVH with 2…
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Manage oVirt environment

I'm starting to deploy oVirt in one of my works, and I have a lot of questions about how to manage everything when you start using it. First I'll describe my setup. I have three machines, two ProLiant DL360e Gen8 servers and one common PC. All of…
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Zabbix Graphs Data is Intermittent

We use Proxmox VE as our virtualization environment, and recently upgraded from 2.X -> 3.X. We also made the change from a single host to a dual host cluster. And, last but not least, we moved our VMs from a LVM backend to a GlusterFS one. Here is…
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Mounted Gluster volume keeps reverting to "root" permissions

Ive got GlusterFS running on an AWS server and its mounted to another AWS server. The folder that is mounted though keeps reverting to "root" ownership, when this happens uploads fail from the web browser as nginx is the owner trying to upload the…
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automount volume only after bootingup

I have configured glusterfs between two ubuntu servers and mounting the gluster volume under /var/www directory. Since I am using only two servers, I had to install glusterfs-client in the same machine…
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Distributing website files with local redundancy

So we're looking at migrating our single dedicated server (set up like shared web hosting) to an architecture with multiple load-balanced front-end servers plus separate database servers (due to traffic growth and availability concerns). TLDR; I…
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Gluster fallback mount

I have a server which content is on a gluster mount. The underlying brick is on the same machine. I was wondering if there is a possibility to set up some kind of fallback in case gluster crashes/disconnects/goes on vacations. What I have in mind is…
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Benchmarking GlusterFS & NFS on AWS using iozone and dd gives different results

I have tried benchmarking GlusterFS vs NFS on Amazon Web Services (AWS) using a m1.medium sized EC2 instance. We use the AWS EBS as the block store, with a XFS file system. Running Ubuntu 12.04 using the standard packages. I used iozone and dd to…
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Is there a way to synchronize my distributed storage infrastructure with file changes possible on each location?

I need a storage device in 3 different location. Each device will have 4TB of storage. At least 2TB should be a 'shared folder' working like Dropbox: when a user change a file in one location, the file should be updated instantly on the two other…
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GlusterFs + zfs xattr

i'm trying to setup a small fileserver using GlusterFs over Zfs over two boxes that are currently running ubuntu 13.04. i'm currently using glusterfs and zfs-fuse from ubuntu repositories and with those packages i've been able to create successfully…
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Installing glusterfs client on Amazon Linux AMI

I created glusterfs instances using Ubuntu TLS AMI. I want my existing instances (Amazon Linux AMI) connect to glusterfs servers. There is no Amazon Linux folder at the glusterfs's download page:…
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defining EBS volume size to use with glusterfs

I'm trying to build a glusterfs network file system on Amazon EC2. I trying to define EBS Volume size. I'm planning to use 2 x 12Gb volumes at the begining stage and then add extra volumes in the future. What size should be the new volumes? Should…
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Should I disable Software-RAID if I already have a redundant copy

My hosting provider preconfigures the servers I rent with RAID-1. However, for redundancy, I am planning to have another copy of the data on another server using GlusterFS. Can I disable the RAID-1 to gain additional disk space since I am already…
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Gluster volume create -> host not a friend

If I use IPs to create Gluster volume, it works well, but when I use hostnames, it says: Host glustertest1 not a friend glustertest1 is Route 53 name which resolves to EC2 Instance private address. I use glusterfs 3.3.0 Question: What could be the…
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what is the difference between Redhat Virtual Storage Appliance and GlusterFS?

GlusterFS still offers the open source software. But since Redhat has re-branded GlusterFS as Redhat Virtual Storage Appliance, I am confused about what will be good for production environment. Is there any technical difference between Redhat VSA…
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