On Fri, Mar 16, 2012 at 02:02:26PM -0500, D. Dante Lorenso wrote: > I'm really hoping for something like a pfSense distro that wraps > gluster up in a nice web GUI. It'd be great to have an > appliance-like OS that just works out of the box with a couple > clicks. But that takes time, I understand, ... and I'll be patient > :-) Well, there is the official Redhat storage appliance - but since they don't publish a list price (that I can find), I am assuming it is too expensive to be worth considering. In any case, it would likely force me down paths I don't want to go, like huge 48-drive chasses that take three people to lift. > Meanwhile, I'm gonna keep working with Gluster and see if I can get > the performance. Recently I converted to using Linux Raid 10 on 4 > 1TB drives and now I'm getting 310 MB/s write speed to my brick > using "dd" test. That's looking better and getting closer to maxing > out a 1GbE link. 310 MB/s = 2.6 Gbps, so you have more than maxed out a 1G link. Time for you to buy some 10G NICs :-) Regards, Brian.
