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Glusterific!

By cfheoh | May 25, 2020 - 9:30 am |May 22, 2020 Acquisition, Algorithm, Appliance, Ceph, CIFS, Cloud, Containers, Disks, Filesystems, FreeNAS, Gluster, High Performance Computing, Hyperconvergence, IBM, Infiniband, Intel, Isilon, iXsystems, Linux, Lustre, NAS, NetApp, NFS, Object Storage, Openstack, Panasas, Quantum Corporation, RAID, RDMA, Redhat, Scale-out architecture, Server SAN, SMB, Software Defined Storage, Storage Optimization, TrueNAS, Virtualization
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A conversation with a storage executive last week brought up Gluster, a clustered file system I have not explored in many years. I had one interaction months before its acquisition by RedHat® in 2011.

I remembered the Gluster demo at Jaring over a video call, because I was the lead consultant pitching the scale-out NAS solution. It did not go well, and there were “bugs” which made the Head of IT flinched in her seat. Despite Jaring being Malaysia’s technology trailblazer, the impression of Gluster was forgettable. I stayed on the GlusterFS architecture a little while and then it dropped off my radar.

Gluster Logo Scale Out NAS

Gluster Scale Out NAS

But after the conversation last week, I am elated to revive my interest in Gluster, knowing that something big and impressive in coming into the fore very soon. Studying the architecture (again!), there are 2 parts of Gluster which excite me. One is the Brick and the other is the lack of a Metadata service.

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