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Hi all!
I thought this testimonial worth sharing, as many ovirt users have posed
questions on how gluster fits as a backend for VM store. Below comments
are from a user who's on gluster 3.7.9 with sharding enabled on the
gluster volume. You can follow thread here -
https://www.mail-archive.com/gluster-users@gluster.org/msg24467.html
thanks
sahina
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Subject: [Gluster-users] Kudos to All
Date: Sun, 17 Apr 2016 21:31:41 +1000
From: Lindsay Mathieson <lindsay.mathieson(a)gmail.com>
To: gluster-users <Gluster-users(a)gluster.org>
Hi developers, didn't want to be whiny all the time re possible issues
:) and to congratulate you on the 3.7.x release - its come a long way
since the 3.5 range I initially looked at and I really appreciate the
attention to details for VM hosting environments.
The chunking really works and makes a big difference to handling the
relatively small number of very large files on a VM hosting, it makes a
big difference to server reboots. I've found performance, both raw and
IOPS to be much better than any other clustered filesystems I've tried.
I can launch 12 VM simultaneously on my relatively limited hardware with
iowaits remaining below 7%, under previous setups on the same hardware
it was brought to its knees.
Management tools and documentation still a little quirky :) but the
community is good and once you know your way round the system it is
pretty straightforward. I very much appreciate that gluster plays well
with ZFS as its host file system, I think they are a perfect match.
Overall I think that gluster is a great match for the small to large
business and I appreciate the can do attitude behind the team.
Spent this weekend fine tuning and benchmarking a volume, found what I
think is the sweet spot for us and have started a production trial -
moved 2 developers (including myself), 2 support guys and one
receptionist to it (12 VM's total). I'll let you know if I still feel
the same by the end of the week :)
Cheers,
--
Lindsay Mathieson
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Hi all!<br>
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I thought this testimonial worth sharing, as many ovirt users have
posed questions on how gluster fits as a backend for VM store. Below
comments are from a user who's on gluster 3.7.9 with sharding
enabled on the gluster volume. You can follow thread here -
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href="https://www.mail-archive.com/gluster-users@gluster.org/msg2446...
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thanks<br>
sahina<br>
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<pre>Hi developers, didn't want to be whiny all the time re possible
issues
:) and to congratulate you on the 3.7.x release - its come a long way
since the 3.5 range I initially looked at and I really appreciate the
attention to details for VM hosting environments.
The chunking really works and makes a big difference to handling the
relatively small number of very large files on a VM hosting, it makes a
big difference to server reboots. I've found performance, both raw and
IOPS to be much better than any other clustered filesystems I've tried.
I can launch 12 VM simultaneously on my relatively limited hardware with
iowaits remaining below 7%, under previous setups on the same hardware
it was brought to its knees.
Management tools and documentation still a little quirky :) but the
community is good and once you know your way round the system it is
pretty straightforward. I very much appreciate that gluster plays well
with ZFS as its host file system, I think they are a perfect match.
Overall I think that gluster is a great match for the small to large
business and I appreciate the can do attitude behind the team.
Spent this weekend fine tuning and benchmarking a volume, found what I
think is the sweet spot for us and have started a production trial -
moved 2 developers (including myself), 2 support guys and one
receptionist to it (12 VM's total). I'll let you know if I still feel
the same by the end of the week :)
Cheers,
--
Lindsay Mathieson
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