Name: Red Hat Gluster Storage
Rating: 6 (6 reviews)
Author: Red Hat

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Red Hat Gluster Storage is a software-defined storage option; Red Hat acquired Gluster in 2011.

Red Hat Gluster Storage

Software-Defined Storage Solutions (SDS) encompasses a range of application and policy defined storage provisioning, storage virtualization and storage management automation. Related to software-defined networks (SDN) and datacenters (SDDC), SDS essentially decouples physical infrastructure as a constraint to storage management to the extent possible.

Software Defined Storage (SDS)

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Performance metrics

Perform well

File systems

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Previous versions

Self healing

Integrates extremely well

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Load balanced

Easily added

Flexible configuration

Storage capacity

Configuration options

Read and write

Integrates well

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Software Defined Storage (SDS) Solutions

Red Hat Gluster Storage is being used by our organization to implement a scalable, redundant, and performant storage solution that reduces procurement costs. Our organization was a NetApp NAS shop, which in itself presents major licensing, hardware, and maintenance costs. Our team evaluated options to reduce storage costs while improving the user experience and trending into the open source community to ensure the latest and greatest baselines available to utilize.

Scales; bricks can be easily added to increase storage capacity
Performs; I/O is spread across multiple spindles (HDDs), thereby increasing read and write performance
Integrates well with RHEL/CentOS 7; if your organization is using RHEL 7, Gluster (GFS) integrates extremely well with that baseline, especially since it's come under the Red Hat portfolio of tools.

Documentation; using readthedocs demonstrates that the Gluster project isn't always kept up-to-date as far as documentation is concerned. Many of the guides are for previous versions of the product and can be cumbersome to follow at times.
Self-healing; our use of GFS required the administrator to trigger an auto-heal operation manually whenever bricks were added/removed from the pool. This would be a great feature to incorporate using autonomous self-healing whenever a brick is added/removed from the pool.
Performance metrics are scarce; our team received feedback that online RDBMS transactions did not perform well on distributed file systems (such as GFS), however this could not be substantiated via any online research or white papers.

Positive - Alignment with the open source community and being able to stay abreast of the latest trending products available.
Positive - Reduced procurement and maintenance costs.
Negative - Impacts user/system maintainer training in order to teach them how to utilize and troubleshoot the product.

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Red Hat Gluster Storage

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What is Red Hat Gluster Storage?