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Oh I did the reply thing again.... I am wondering how GlusterFS has performed providing VDI storage?

On Feb 22, 2012 2:06 PM, "dwight at supercomputer.org" <dwight@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Sure, which part are you interested in? DRBD appears to be used for
one of the internal subsystems (a database). Nimbula uses Gluster,
along with Hadoop for the rest of their Cloud.

So far, I like what I see, mostly. It's clearly done by a bunch of
experienced systems guys. E.g. they have a sane CLI, unlike XCP. In
short, they've put together a bunch of sophisticated technology,
using people who really understand what they are doing.

The biggest question in my mind is scalability. Right now, the
networking setup is questionable. Your weakest link appears to be
the backplane of the router. That is, they use one single ethernet
segment for everything. That has clearly got to change. But still,
for a young product, I'm liking what I'm seeing.

Note that I haven't installed their recent upgrade yet, so things may
have changed with their 2.x product.

-dwight-

On Wednesday 22 February 2012 05:44:17 am you wrote:
> This thread has become relevant to my interests.
>
> Let me know how it goes.
>
> On Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 3:44 PM, dwight at supercomputer.org <
>
> dwight@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > On Thursday 16 February 2012 10:50:00 am Miles Fidelman wrote:
> > > dwight at supercomputer.org wrote:
> > > > That's interesting. FWIW, I'm evaluating Nimbula right now,
> > > > and they claim that they are using Gluster along with DRBD.
> > > > They are CentOS/RH based, so that fits in with your comment
> > > > about RedHat. Can't say yet how well it works though.
> > >
> > > Gluster + DRBD seems an odd combination. Seems like DRBD
> > > would be extraneous.
> >
> > I honestly can't even say if it has Gluster. I was just going
> > from the marketing lit and high level claims. I heard late
> > yesterday (from someone who was at a conference here) that they
> > were using something else.
> >
> > I've just gotten it installed this morning, and so I'm going to
> > play around with it. I see it also claims to support NFS. I'm
> > especially curious if it has the same fatal flaw that XCP has,
> > with regards to NFS (which I asked recently about on this list,
> > and got no response).
> >
> > This should be amusing.
> >
> > -dwight-
> >
> >
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Re: [Xen-users] any recent experience combining GlusterFS w/ Xen?