Sorry, this is what I get for logging off for the night: short answer is YES. At the end of the day I want to showcase gluster' awesomeness and also be able to show users how to do it right in the cloud for shared, fault tolerant file systems Jesse > On Feb 17, 2015, at 5:53 PM, Justin Clift <justin@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Yeah, that'd be pretty optimal. How full on do you want to go? > > Should we look into arranging some OnMetal stuff, in addition to the > VM offerings? > > Jesse, Ben is our *very best* GlusterFS and RHS performance tuning > expert, so capturing his interest is a *very* good thing. ;) > > + Justin > >> On 17 Feb 2015, at 23:10, Benjamin Turner <bennyturns@xxxxxxxxx> 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@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >>> On 17 Feb 2015, at 21:49, Josh Boon <gluster@xxxxxxxxxxxx> 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@xxxxxxxxxxx> >>> To: "Gluster Users" <gluster-users@xxxxxxxxxxx>, "Gluster Devel" <gluster-devel@xxxxxxxxxxx> >>> Cc: "Jesse Noller" <jesse.noller@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> >>> 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. >>> >>> My personal twitter: twitter.com/realjustinclift >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Gluster-devel mailing list >>> Gluster-devel@xxxxxxxxxxx >>> http://www.gluster.org/mailman/listinfo/gluster-devel >> >> -- >> GlusterFS - http://www.gluster.org >> >> An open source, distributed file system scaling to several >> petabytes, and handling thousands of clients. >> >> My personal twitter: twitter.com/realjustinclift >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Gluster-devel mailing list >> Gluster-devel@xxxxxxxxxxx >> http://www.gluster.org/mailman/listinfo/gluster-devel > > -- > GlusterFS - http://www.gluster.org > > An open source, distributed file system scaling to several > petabytes, and handling thousands of clients. > > My personal twitter: twitter.com/realjustinclift > _______________________________________________ Gluster-users mailing list Gluster-users@xxxxxxxxxxx http://www.gluster.org/mailman/listinfo/gluster-users
