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  • GlusterFS portability on full view – ARM 64

    Today at Red Hat Summit, Jon Masters, Red Hat’s chief ARM architect, demonstrated GlusterFS replicated on two ARM 64 servers, streaming a video. This marks the first successful demo of a distributed filesystem running on ARM 64. Video and podcast to come soon.    

  • GlusterFS is Ready for OpenStack

    Amidst the madness of the OpenStack Summit a couple of weeks ago, you could be forgiven for not seeing a Red Hat announcement about GlusterFS being “OpenStack-ready”. You may wonder, what exactly do we mean by “OpenStack-ready”? The first thing to understand is that storage in OpenStack is multifaceted. It could mean applications storing objects […]

  • Introducing the Gluster Community Forge

    Today, I’m happy to finally unveil something that we’ve been working on for a couple of months now: the Gluster Community Forge. We noticed some time ago that there were several projects out on the internet that extended GlusterFS, and we thought it would be nice to give them a home, where users could find […]

  • The Death of Proprietary Software

    Whenever I give talks at conferences, there’s always one particular topic I make sure to bring up. I’ll ask the audience, “Quick, name a new proprietary enterprise software product to have gained ubiquity in the data center over the last 12 months.” I’ll wait a few seconds, and then, “Ok, 24 months.” After a brief […]

  • Linked List Topology with GlusterFS

    Here’s a nice post about creating a linked list topology for a distributed-replicated setup. The idea is that it is easier to add a single server to a replicated volume by spending a bit of extra time prepping a linked list of bricks. The default topology would leave the author with the need of adding […]

  • Extending GlusterFS with Python (Linux Journal)

    Jeff Darcy, Gluster developer extraordinaire with Red Hat, has written an article all about extending our favorite distributed storage system with Python, and he gets into a fair bit of detail with Glupy, his project for implementing new features in GlusterFS with Python. Glupy does this by utilizing GlusterFS’ established translator API, which you can […]

  • Integration with KVM/QEMU

    By now, you may have heard about the recent work being done to integrate GlusterFS with QEMU. The engineers at IBM’s Linux Technology Center in Bangalore deserve a lot of credit for their work here. Bharata Rao, Deepak Shetty and Mohan Kumar have been hard at work implementing a GlusterFS device driver for QEMU that […]

  • Podcast with the Cloud Evangelist (Richard Morrell) and John Mark

    I forgot to post this at the time, but I had a lovely conversation with Richard Morrell, aka the “Cloud Evangelist” at Red Hat’s UK office. Richard is a jolly bloke with a fair bit to say on all things cloud. We talked about GlusterFS, the Gluster community, and also about Red Hat’s upcoming Developer […]

  • Meet Eco Willson, Gluster Community Technical Lead

    If you were a customer of Gluster, Inc. back in the day, you may already be familiar with Eco’s handiwork. I’m happy to report that he’s now full-time on the community side, writing docs, doing meetups and conferences, and doing everything it takes to teach users and developers how to fish. Here’s a video of […]

  • Using QEMU to Boot VM Image on GlusterFS Volume

    I have been very excited by the progress made recently on the libgfapi and QEMU driver fronts recently. With recently added code to the master branches of QEMU and GlusterFS, you can now talk directly from QEMU to GlusterFS, bypassing FUSE. See the demo video below for an example of how it works: Outstanding stuff! […]