Hi, I looked at gluster over the past year. It looks nice but the commercial option is not so interesting, since it is not possible to evaluate a storage solution within 30 days. More than one any other storage platform its a matter of trust, if the scaling is working. So my questions to this mailinglist are: - Anybody using the open source edition in a bigger production environment? How is the expierence over a longer time? - Since gluster seems only to offer support within the enterprise version. Anybody out there how is supporting the open source edition? Regards Uwe -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://supercolony.gluster.org/pipermail/gluster-users/attachments/20110804/5a53784e/attachment.html>
On 2011-08-04 12:38, Uwe Kastens wrote:> Hi, > > I looked at gluster over the past year. It looks nice but the > commercial option is not so interesting, since it is not possible to > evaluate a storage solution within 30 days. More than one any other > storage platform its a matter of trust, if the scaling is working. > > So my questions to this mailinglist are: > - Anybody using the open source edition in a bigger production > environment? How is the expierence over a longer time? > - Since gluster seems only to offer support within the enterprise > version. Anybody out there how is supporting the open source edition?hi! Correct me, if I'm wrong, there is only one (OSS) edition. You can buy for example appliance, but it's running the same version. tamas
Greg_Swift at aotx.uscourts.gov
2011-Aug-04 13:26 UTC
[Gluster-users] gluster usable as open source solution
gluster-users-bounces at gluster.org wrote on 08/04/2011 05:38:45 AM:> I looked at gluster over the past year. It looks nice but the > commercial option is not so interesting, since it is not possible to > evaluate a storage solution within 30 days. More than one any other > storage platform its a matter of trust, if the scaling is working. > > So my questions to this mailinglist are: > - Anybody using the open source edition in a bigger production > environment? How is the expierence over a longer time?bigger is a matter of perspective and implementation. My bigger is very different than most other people on the list's bigger. would be more beneficial to you to ask more specific questions. -greg
Scott, That sound interesting. It hasn't been going well so far. Currently we are struggling with> performance problems that seem to be linked to certain versions of the linux > kernel. > > The lack of in depth and current documentation is one of the most glaring > and obvious problems. > > >What is your feeling about stability of the solution? Kind Regards Uwe -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://supercolony.gluster.org/pipermail/gluster-users/attachments/20110804/52da212c/attachment.html>
John Mark Walker
2011-Aug-04 16:44 UTC
[Gluster-users] gluster usable as open source solution
Uwe - I'll let others in the community speak to the effectiveness of GlusterFS. I'm obviously biased in that respect :) However, one point I would like to make is that if you're curious about what we provide commercially, I would encourage you to contact someone here to get the information directly from the source. If you need longer than 30 days to evaluate, communicate that to someone here so that we can try to accommodate you. Thanks, John Mark Walker Gluster Community Guy ________________________________ From: gluster-users-bounces at gluster.org [gluster-users-bounces at gluster.org] on behalf of Uwe Kastens [kisteorg at googlemail.com] Sent: Thursday, August 04, 2011 3:38 AM To: Gluster-users at gluster.org Subject: [Gluster-users] gluster usable as open source solution Hi, I looked at gluster over the past year. It looks nice but the commercial option is not so interesting, since it is not possible to evaluate a storage solution within 30 days. More than one any other storage platform its a matter of trust, if the scaling is working. So my questions to this mailinglist are: - Anybody using the open source edition in a bigger production environment? How is the expierence over a longer time? - Since gluster seems only to offer support within the enterprise version. Anybody out there how is supporting the open source edition? Regards Uwe -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://supercolony.gluster.org/pipermail/gluster-users/attachments/20110804/7b44c1cc/attachment.html>
On 08/04/2011 06:38 AM, Uwe Kastens wrote:> Hi, > > I looked at gluster over the past year. It looks nice but the commercial > option is not so interesting, since it is not possible to evaluate a > storage solution within 30 days. More than one any other storage > platform its a matter of trust, if the scaling is working.Greetings Uwe You can evaluate it as long as needed using the open source code. The evaluation is really of the support and service side of things. We could have more discussion offline if you wish, so as not to spam the group. I thought you had decided upon Nexenta though ... has this changed? I'd certainly like to hear more about your consideration of Nexenta and Gluster.> So my questions to this mailinglist are: > - Anybody using the open source edition in a bigger production > environment? How is the expierence over a longer time?Multiple of our customers are doing this, ranging from smaller 10TB shops through a few 500TB shops.> - Since gluster seems only to offer support within the enterprise > version. Anybody out there how is supporting the open source edition?Support is customizable to your needs. This is a conversation best had offline. Regards, Joe -- Joseph Landman, Ph.D Founder and CEO Scalable Informatics Inc. email: landman at scalableinformatics.com web : http://scalableinformatics.com http://scalableinformatics.com/sicluster phone: +1 734 786 8423 x121 fax : +1 866 888 3112 cell : +1 734 612 4615
I run two Gluster clusters in a very production roll using open source Gluster, all supported in-house mostly by myself. We have a 4-node 240tb after raid (576tb raw) cluster supporting a farm of audio transcoders. This one was built not so much for speed (its not very speedy), but to be reliable and cheap. Over the last two years we've had a few small issues but nothing major. Very reliable. All built on commodity hardware (Supermicro chassis's, Seagate 7.2k desktop harddrives). I also run a smaller 6-node 120tb (432tb raw) as storage for a pool of public facing apache webservers. This smaller cluster serves content to feed our CDN providers which feeds all our users. We can saturate a gigabit line (with 2-3meg http objects) without issues. (Same Supermicro chassis's and Seagate 7.2k desktop harddrives) This cluster has never gone down in the last two years it has been running. Our two homebuilt Gluster clusters replaced nearly 1/4 of a million dollars in Isilon hardware for less then the cost of the Isilon annual support contract while doubling the space at the same time. It has saved our company hundreds of thousands of dollars and has been hugely successful. You're welcome to email me offline if you would like more information. liam On Thu, Aug 4, 2011 at 3:38 AM, Uwe Kastens <kisteorg at googlemail.com> wrote:> Hi, > > I looked at gluster over the past year. It looks nice but the commercial > option is not so interesting, since it is not possible to evaluate a storage > solution within 30 days. More than one any other storage platform its a > matter of trust, if the scaling is working. > > So my questions to this mailinglist are: > - Anybody using the open source edition in a bigger production environment? > How is the expierence over a longer time? > - Since gluster seems only to offer support within the enterprise version. > Anybody out there how is supporting the open source edition? > > Regards > > Uwe > > > _______________________________________________ > Gluster-users mailing list > Gluster-users at gluster.org > http://gluster.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gluster-users > >
Glad I could help, Uwe. We do use hardware RAID inside the servers. The reason being is because gluster isn't block level so doing a remirror/resync with 80+ million files takes weeks - so if we lose a hard drive the rebuild time would be unacceptable. With hardware raid a rebuild takes only a day or two. We access our clusters mostly via the native fuse gluster client because performance via the NFS client is somewhat slow. However we do have a few clients that connect via NFS so we can mount readonly or that don't require a lot of performance. liam On Thu, Aug 4, 2011 at 11:13 AM, Uwe Kastens <kisteorg at googlemail.com> wrote:> Hello Liam, > > Thank you for sharing information. This is very kind and helpful. > > Indeed there are some questions: > - Are you working with hardware raid inside the server? > - How are you acessing the storage? NFS/gluster native? > > Kind Regards > > Uwe > > > > > 2011/8/4 Liam Slusser <lslusser at gmail.com> >> >> I run two Gluster clusters in a very production roll using open source >> Gluster, all supported in-house mostly by myself. >> >> We have a 4-node 240tb after raid (576tb raw) cluster supporting a >> farm of audio transcoders. ?This one was built not so much for speed >> (its not very speedy), but to be reliable and cheap. ?Over the last >> two years we've had a few small issues but nothing major. ?Very >> reliable. ?All built on commodity hardware (Supermicro chassis's, >> Seagate 7.2k desktop harddrives). >> >> I also run a smaller 6-node 120tb (432tb raw) as storage for a pool of >> public facing apache webservers. ?This smaller cluster serves content >> to feed our CDN providers which feeds all our users. ?We can saturate >> a gigabit line (with 2-3meg http objects) without issues. ?(Same >> Supermicro chassis's and Seagate 7.2k desktop harddrives) ?This >> cluster has never gone down in the last two years it has been running. >> >> Our two homebuilt Gluster clusters replaced nearly 1/4 of a million >> dollars in Isilon hardware for less then the cost of the Isilon annual >> support contract while doubling the space at the same time. ?It has >> saved our company hundreds of thousands of dollars and has been hugely >> successful. >> >> You're welcome to email me offline if you would like more information. >> >> liam >> >> On Thu, Aug 4, 2011 at 3:38 AM, Uwe Kastens <kisteorg at googlemail.com> >> wrote: >> > Hi, >> > >> > I looked at gluster over the past year. It looks nice but the commercial >> > option is not so interesting, since it is not possible to evaluate a >> > storage >> > solution within 30 days. More than one any other storage platform its a >> > matter of trust, if the scaling is working. >> > >> > So my questions to this mailinglist are: >> > - Anybody using the open source edition in a bigger production >> > environment? >> > How is the expierence over a longer time? >> > - Since gluster seems only to offer support within the enterprise >> > version. >> > Anybody out there how is supporting the open source edition? >> > >> > Regards >> > >> > Uwe >> > >> > >> > _______________________________________________ >> > Gluster-users mailing list >> > Gluster-users at gluster.org >> > http://gluster.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gluster-users >> > >> > > >