This webinar provides an overview of the latest features introduced in GlusterFS 3.2 including Asynchronous Geo-Replication, Usage Quotas, and Advanced Monitoring Tools.

1. What’s New in GlusterFS 3.2?
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3. Today’s Speakers
John Kreisa Dave Garnett Craig Carl
Vice President Vice President Senior Systems Engineer
Marketing Product Management Gluster, Inc.
Gluster, Inc. Gluster, Inc.
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4. What is the Gluster File System?
Open source scale-out file system for public and
private cloud storage
– Metadata free storage
– Global namespace
– POSIX compliant
– NAS
– Highly available
– Replication
– Linearly scalable performance
– Easy to deploy and use
Stores and manages data with 3x the performance
and 1/3 the costs
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5. A Standard Gluster Deployment
Clients/Apps Clients/Apps Clients/Apps Standard clients
running standard apps
IP Network Over any standard IP
network
Access application
data, as files & folders,
Gluster Global Namespace (NFS, CIFS, Gluster Native)
in a global namespace,
Application Data VMs VMDK VMDK using a variety of
standard protocols
Stored in a
commoditized,
Gluster Virtual Storage Pool virtualized, scale-out,
centrally managed pool
DAS, SAN, NAS
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6. Strong Global Gluster Community
Global adoption 150,000+ downloads
– ~8,000 /month
500+ ‘registered’ deployments
– 45 countries
1,500+ registered users
– Mailing lists, Forums, etc.
Member: OpenStack, Linux
Foundation
Community contributions
– Diverse testing environments
– Bugs identification and fixes
– Code contributions
Download now!
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7. Common Solutions Built on GlusterFS
Media serving
Large scale file storage
File sharing
Multi-tenant file system
Unstructured data store
IaaS storage layer
Disaster recovery
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8. 4 Supported Ways to Consume GlusterFS
Amazon Web Services (AWS)
– GlusterFS can be deployed within Amazon Machine Image (AMI)
RightScale Cloud Management
– GlusterFS is available within a RightScale ServerTemplate
– Deployable via the RightScale Cloud Management Dashboard
Virtual machines
– GlusterFS supports the leading virtual machines
Storage software appliance
– Deployable on bare metal and supports any hardware on the Red Hat Hardware
Compatibility List (HCL) of certified servers and storage
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9. Select Gluster Customers
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10. What’s New in GlusterFS 3.2?
Geo-Replication
– Continuous asynchronous replication
– Incremental replication from one site to another
– Across LAN, WAN, Clouds
Disk quotas
– Directory and Volume
– Facilitate the utility billing model.
Gluster Top and Profile Commands
– I/O operations and performance statistics.
– Gluster Top presents the top 100 operations per server.
– Gluster Profile provides performance statistics
• Latency
• Number and type of calls
• Amount of reads and writes
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11. Geo-Replication Over LAN / WAN
Asynchronously mirror data over a LAN / WAN
– Incremental Replication
– No need for snapshots
Central Office / Data Center Remote Office
LAN / WAN
Master Slave
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12. Multi-Site Cascading Geo-Replication
Asynchronously mirror and cascade data
– Incremental Replication over LAN, WAN or Internet
– No need for snap-shots
– Asynchronous replication to all sites
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13. Geo-Replication for the Cloud
Business continuity in the cloud
Asynchronously mirror data over the Internet
– Incremental Replication over Internet
– No need for snapshots
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14. The Benefits of Geo-Replication
Business continuity in the public cloud
– Amazon Web Services
– Geo-Replication between Regions
– N-way replication between Availability Zones
Replicate over long-haul distances
No Snapshots required!
Gluster federates the cloud
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15. Disk Quotas
Set quotas by volumes or directories
– Efficient management of disk space
– Simple storage space allocation by storage administrators
– Ideal for utility type IT billing and chargeback models
Volumes
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16. Top and Profile Commands
Monitoring, measuring and statistics gathering
Gluster Top
– Top 100 I/O operations by storage server
– Enables greater visibility of workload patters
Gluster Profile
– Performance and statistics gather over a specified time frame including:
• Latency
• Number and type of operations
• Amount of data read or written
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17. Summary
GlusterFS – a scalable, highly available open
source file system
GlusterFS 3.2 adds important new features
– Business Continuity with Geo Replication
– Easier and efficient storage space management
– Greater insight Workload and performance analysis
Download and try it now!
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18. Questions and Answers
Your turn - ask our experts
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