This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --------------090707020200030503080100 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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 -------- Forwarded Message -------- Subject: [Gluster-users] Kudos to All Date: Sun, 17 Apr 2016 21:31:41 +1000 From: Lindsay Mathieson <lindsay.mathieson@gmail.com> To: gluster-users <Gluster-users@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 _______________________________________________ Gluster-users mailing list Gluster-users@gluster.org http://www.gluster.org/mailman/listinfo/gluster-users --------------090707020200030503080100 Content-Type: text/html; charset=windows-1252 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit <html> <head> <meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=windows-1252"> </head> <body text="#000000" bgcolor="#FFFFFF"> Hi all!<br> <br> 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 - <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.mail-archive.com/gluster-users@gluster.org/msg24467.html">https://www.mail-archive.com/gluster-users@gluster.org/msg24467.html</a><br> <br> thanks<br> sahina<br> <div class="moz-forward-container"><br> <br> -------- Forwarded Message -------- <table class="moz-email-headers-table" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"> <tbody> <tr> <th valign="BASELINE" nowrap="nowrap" align="RIGHT">Subject: </th> <td>[Gluster-users] Kudos to All</td> </tr> <tr> <th valign="BASELINE" nowrap="nowrap" align="RIGHT">Date: </th> <td>Sun, 17 Apr 2016 21:31:41 +1000</td> </tr> <tr> <th valign="BASELINE" nowrap="nowrap" align="RIGHT">From: </th> <td>Lindsay Mathieson <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:lindsay.mathieson@gmail.com"><lindsay.mathieson@gmail.com></a></td> </tr> <tr> <th valign="BASELINE" nowrap="nowrap" align="RIGHT">To: </th> <td>gluster-users <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:Gluster-users@gluster.org"><Gluster-users@gluster.org></a></td> </tr> </tbody> </table> <br> <br> <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 _______________________________________________ Gluster-users mailing list <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:Gluster-users@gluster.org">Gluster-users@gluster.org</a> <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.gluster.org/mailman/listinfo/gluster-users">http://www.gluster.org/mailman/listinfo/gluster-users</a> </pre> <br> </div> <br> </body> </html> --------------090707020200030503080100--