On 04/17/2016 07:31 AM, Lindsay Mathieson wrote:
Hi developers, didn't want to be whiny all the time re possible issues :) and to congratulate you on the 3.7.x release - its come a long way since the 3.5 range I initially looked at and I really appreciate the attention to details for VM hosting environments.
Thank you, Lindsay! We appreciate all your efforts to make this happen as well!
The chunking really works and makes a big difference to handling the relatively small number of very large files on a VM hosting, it makes a big difference to server reboots. I've found performance, both raw and IOPS to be much better than any other clustered filesystems I've tried. I can launch 12 VM simultaneously on my relatively limited hardware with iowaits remaining below 7%, under previous setups on the same hardware it was brought to its knees. Management tools and documentation still a little quirky :) but the community is good and once you know your way round the system it is pretty straightforward.
What in your opinion would make management easier? We could build these pieces in gluster over a period of time. Till then we can make our documentation more relevant to address such pain points.
I very much appreciate that gluster plays well with ZFS as its host file system, I think they are a perfect match. Overall I think that gluster is a great match for the small to large business and I appreciate the can do attitude behind the team. Spent this weekend fine tuning and benchmarking a volume, found what I think is the sweet spot for us and have started a production trial - moved 2 developers (including myself), 2 support guys and one receptionist to it (12 VM's total). I'll let you know if I still feel the same by the end of the week :)
We are all ears :). Cheers, Vijay _______________________________________________ Gluster-users mailing list Gluster-users@xxxxxxxxxxx http://www.gluster.org/mailman/listinfo/gluster-users
