Gluster users - Feb 2015 - [Gluster-devel] Looking for volunteer to write up official "How to do GlusterFS in the Cloud: The Right Way" for Rackspace...

----- Original Message -----
> From: "Justin Clift" <justin at gluster.org>
> To: "Benjamin Turner" <bennyturns at gmail.com>
> Cc: "Gluster Users" <gluster-users at gluster.org>,
"Gluster Devel" <gluster-devel at gluster.org>, "Jesse
Noller"
> <jesse.noller at rackspace.com>
> Sent: Tuesday, February 17, 2015 6:52:48 PM
> Subject: Re: [Gluster-users] [Gluster-devel] Looking for volunteer to write
up official "How to do GlusterFS in the
> Cloud: The Right Way"	for Rackspace...
> 
> Yeah, that'd be pretty optimal.  How full on do you want to go?
I have some benchmark kits that can easily be enhanced to work with ubuntu, it
should just be a matter of checking /etc/redaht-release and the ubuntu
equivalent and running apt instead of yum.  I was thinking I could do the
testing on the RPM based systems and the other contributor could run on deb?  We
can share scripts / tuning / recommendations and at the end of this could have
nice setup / benchmark kits that work on a variety of OSs + the DOC we are
looking for.  The tool uses IOZone, smallfile, and fio, runs the tool N # of
times to get sample set, and does some statistical analysis on the samples(avg,
std dev, delta between samples) before moving on to the next test.
> Should we look into arranging some OnMetal stuff, in addition to the
> VM offerings?
I have all the BM numbers we can handle, happy to provide them.  1G, 10G, RDMA,
spinning and SSDs.  I will be rerunning everything with the mt epoll + RDMA
changes also.
> 
> Jesse, Ben is our *very best* GlusterFS and RHS performance tuning
> expert, so capturing his interest is a *very* good thing. ;)
A little overstated but the sentiment is appreciated :)
> 
> + Justin
> 
> On 17 Feb 2015, at 23:10, Benjamin Turner <bennyturns at gmail.com>
wrote:
> > This is interesting to me, I'd like the chance to run my
performance tests
> > on a cloud provider's systems.  We could put together some
recommendations
> > for configuration, tuning, and performance numbers?  Also it would be
cool
> > to enhance my setup scripts to work with cloud instances.  Sound like
what
> > you are looking for ish?
> > 
> > -b
> > 
> > On Tue, Feb 17, 2015 at 5:06 PM, Justin Clift <justin at
gluster.org> wrote:
> > On 17 Feb 2015, at 21:49, Josh Boon <gluster at joshboon.com>
wrote:
> > > Do we have use cases to focus on? Gluster is part of the answer
to many
> > > different questions so if it's things like simple replication
and
> > > distribution and basic performance tuning I could help. I also
have a
> > > heavy Ubuntu tilt so if it's Red Hat oriented I'm not
much help :)
> > 
> > Jesse, thoughts on this?
> > 
> > I kinda think it would be useful to have instructions which give
> > correct steps for Ubuntu + Red Hat (and anything else suitable).
> > 
> > Josh, if Jesse agrees, then your Ubuntu knowledge will probably
> > be useful for this. ;)
> > 
> > + Justin
> > 
> > 
> > >
> > > ----- Original Message -----
> > > From: "Justin Clift" <justin at gluster.org>
> > > To: "Gluster Users" <gluster-users at
gluster.org>, "Gluster Devel"
> > > <gluster-devel at gluster.org>
> > > Cc: "Jesse Noller" <jesse.noller at
rackspace.com>
> > > Sent: Tuesday, February 17, 2015 9:37:05 PM
> > > Subject: [Gluster-devel] Looking for volunteer to write up
official "How
> > > to   do GlusterFS in the Cloud: The Right Way" for
Rackspace...
> > >
> > > Yeah, huge subject line.  :)
> > >
> > > But it gets the message across... Rackspace provide us a *bunch*
of
> > > online VM's
> > > which we have our infrastructure in + run the majority of our
regression
> > > tests
> > > with.
> > >
> > > They've asked us if we could write up a "How to do
GlusterFS in the
> > > Cloud: The
> > > Right Way" (technical) doc, for them to add to their doc
collection.
> > > They get asked for this a lot by customers. :D
> > >
> > > Sooo... looking for volunteers to write this up.  And yep,
you're welcome
> > > to
> > > have your name all over it (eg this is good promo/CV material
:>)
> > >
> > > VM's (in Rackspace obviously) will be provided of course.
> > >
> > > Anyone interested?
> > >
> > > (Note - not suitable for a GlusterFS newbie. ;))
> > >
> > > Regards and best wishes,
> > >
> > > Justin Clift
> > >
> > > --
> > > GlusterFS - http://www.gluster.org
> > >
> > > An open source, distributed file system scaling to several
> > > petabytes, and handling thousands of clients.
> > >
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> > >
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I could probably chip in too.  I've run tons of my own "science
experiments" on Rackspace instead of our own hardware, becase that makes
my results more reproducible by others.  If we can enable more people to
do likewise, that benefits everyone.

P.S. Hi Jesse.  Small world, huh?