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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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Automatically scale a Gluster cluster

I'm trying to configure a proof of concept where a server automatically gets spun up and joins a replication cluster. When the server is no longer needed, it gets spun down, and automatically removed from the cluster. There is no way of pre-defining…
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GlusterFS - Replication Over Odd Numbers Of Nodes

I tried to create a replicated volume across my 3-node cluster with the following command: sudo gluster volume create \ replicatedStorage \ replica 2 \ transport tcp \ gluster1.mydomain.com:/data \ gluster2.mydomain.com:/data…
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Client SSL fails with GlusterFS 3.5

I'm running GlusterFS 3.5 from the official Ubuntu packages on Ubuntu 12.04 and when I enable client.ssl, mounting starts to fail. The error I'm getting is: [2014-06-13 10:33:52.690770] E [socket.c:297:ssl_setup_connection]…
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Scale-out distributed storage with snapshots

I'm aware there are many similar questions around, several with great answers. I still haven't quite found what I'm looking for though: a distributed, scale-out FS that supports snapshots. Gluster with finished snapshot support would be great, but…
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Firewall/iptables rules for GlusterFS

A great pleasure would be to know which exact iptables rules to use for securing GlusterFS 3.4.2 (with Debian Wheezy) in shared environment. I'm running some dedicated servers at ISP. There are two servers (named lb01 and lb02) acting as nodes and…
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What kind of "volume/storage management" has the largest support/feature set these days?

(DISCLAIMER: This is "time bound" as probably every other question, I just point it out now instead of implicating it) part of reviewing a few basic decisions for our infrastructure is once again the topic of volume/storage management. I'm mainly…
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Glusterfs distributed replicated small files performance

I've set up 4 distributed replicated servers with glusterfs on top of xfs partitions on hyperv server (dynamic vhdx) virtual disks. The NICs are 6x1Gbit (teamed on hyperv). I share it through samba to windows clients. The problem I run into is…
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Linux file/storage server to be used in windows environment

I need to create storage server (file server) to store backups and user files from Windows machines. I'm thinking to take CentOS 6.3 as a new server OS and setup samba sharing. All of the sudden I came across GlusterFS, which seems to be more…
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Can I use an Amazon Load Balancer in front of multiple GlusterFS EC2 instances?

I'm encountering an interesting problem with setting up a High-Availability file system cluster on EC2. The idea behind the setup is simple: 2 GlusterFS nodes are in two separate availability zones synchronizing data between themselves. I can mount…
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failed to fetch volume file

When my client try to connect gluster server it gives below error: [glusterfsd-mgmt.c:1627:mgmt_getspec_cbk] 0-mgmt: failed to fetch volume file (key:gluster_vol_0) My client is an Amazon Linux instance located on Anazon EC2. I installed…
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Certain operations like 'ls' hang in 4-node gluster setup

I have a 4-node gluster setup with replication set to 2. The 'ls' command hangs on the Gluster mount that I have created. The other operations such as creating a file or reading a file work fine. However, ls, works perfectly fine when I setup only 2…
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Mounting Replicated Gluster Multi-AZ Storage

I have Replicated Gluster Storage which is used by Auto scaling Servers. Both, Auto scaling and Storage are allocated in two Availability zones. Gluster: Number of Bricks: 4 x 2 = 8 Transport-type: tcp Bricks: Brick1: gluster01:/storage/1a # Zone…
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Gluster with s3ql mounted brick?

I am trying to test run Gluster with a volume consisting of two local bricks, the first being a plain directory and the second being a s3ql based mount. Having just the plain directory as a unique brick works fine. Having just the s3ql mount as a…
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GlusterFS issues for Web Serving

I've just tried doing a replicated Gluster setup between 2 web servers. The performance was very poor with simple PHP file operations like file_exists and is_readable taking 15 - 30ms each. A require_once took 1.1 seconds. Like most web setups,…
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Percona XtraDB Cluster with GlusterFS

We are deploying a GlusterFS cluster with 4 nodes, and we want to deploy the Percona XtraDB Cluster on top of it with 4 nodes, each node will have a mounted folder from the GlusterFS, each mount will be a separate one, not a shared one. The total…
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