[Gluster-users] Query for web GUI for gluster configuration

Joe Julian joe at julianfamily.org
Fri Aug 24 09:35:19 UTC 2012


My images are, indeed, on the volume. I saw that image-based performance 
wasn't sufficient so I found a better way. That's my point. Not everyone 
is restricted from being able to take advantage of a better way. So yes, 
I mount a GlusterFS volume within a VM whose image resides on a 
GlusterFS volume.

By the way, you see "9 of 10 people" reporting poor performance in part 
because the people that don't have poor performance don't complain about 
it. Your metric is skewed.

I recognize you're upset because your expectations are not being met. 
You're not alone. I'm not alone either. I see about a dozen new users 
each day that are excited that this software solves a problem for them.

Maybe you should consider posting your use case and seeing if anyone has 
any suggestions on how you could satisfy that rather than trying to tell 
Vijay that he's doing it wrong.

On 08/24/2012 02:15 AM, Fernando Frediani (Qube) wrote:
> Joe,
> 9 of 10 people I have seen here reported very poor performance when running VMs. Obviously they run, but al the performance tests gave results that no one would expect to get. So yes it works for low profile virtual server, like quite web servers, etc, but not in general. Any peak you need it can't accomplish and it does need improvements on Gluster code.
> You can't add it to oVirt and tell people, "Look, it's there but it's only for lwo profile servers that don't require any significant performance". People don't wouldn't even consider that.
> Also you seem to eb mounting Gluster inside the VM which is not the case here. On oVirt that would be for hosting the VM's images.
>
> Regards,
>
> Fernando
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: gluster-users-bounces at gluster.org [mailto:gluster-users-bounces at gluster.org] On Behalf Of Joe Julian
> Sent: 24 August 2012 10:08
> To: gluster-users at gluster.org
> Subject: Re: [Gluster-users] Query for web GUI for gluster configuration
>
> It's only "far from good" for certain use cases, not all. I'm actually quite pleased that GlusterFS emphasizes C&  P over A and none of my users complain ( I use raw images for 14 kvm vms on one of my GlusterFS volumes ). Those VMs mount GlusterFS volumes for their application data.
> Very little is done on the raw image.
>
> Not everybody that uses virtualization is going to be marketing those VMs to 3rd parties that expect it to pretend to be an isolated system.
>
> On 08/24/2012 01:58 AM, Fernando Frediani (Qube) wrote:
>> Vijay, how are you planning to integrate Gluster with oVirt (a fantastic idea in my opinion) if the performance when running .qcow2 or even .raw files is far from good at the moment ?
>>
>> Fernando
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