[Gluster-devel] [Gluster-users] Looking for volunteer to write up official "How to do GlusterFS in the Cloud: The Right Way" for Rackspace...

[Ben Turner]

----- Original Message -----
> From: "Justin Clift" <justin at gluster.org>
> To: "Benjamin Turner" <bennyturns at gmail.com>
> Cc: "Gluster Users" <gluster-users at gluster.org>, "Gluster Devel" <gluster-devel at gluster.org>, "Jesse Noller"
> <jesse.noller at rackspace.com>
> Sent: Tuesday, February 17, 2015 6:52:48 PM
> Subject: Re: [Gluster-users] [Gluster-devel] Looking for volunteer to write	up official "How to do GlusterFS in the
> Cloud: The Right Way"	for Rackspace...
> 
> Yeah, that'd be pretty optimal.  How full on do you want to go?

I have some benchmark kits that can easily be enhanced to work with ubuntu, it should just be a matter of checking /etc/redaht-release and the ubuntu equivalent and running apt instead of yum.  I was thinking I could do the testing on the RPM based systems and the other contributor could run on deb?  We can share scripts / tuning / recommendations and at the end of this could have nice setup / benchmark kits that work on a variety of OSs + the DOC we are looking for.  The tool uses IOZone, smallfile, and fio, runs the tool N # of times to get sample set, and does some statistical analysis on the samples(avg, std dev, delta between samples) before moving on to the next test.

> Should we look into arranging some OnMetal stuff, in addition to the
> VM offerings?

I have all the BM numbers we can handle, happy to provide them.  1G, 10G, RDMA, spinning and SSDs.  I will be rerunning everything with the mt epoll + RDMA changes also.

> 
> Jesse, Ben is our *very best* GlusterFS and RHS performance tuning
> expert, so capturing his interest is a *very* good thing. ;)

A little overstated but the sentiment is appreciated :)

> 
> + Justin
> 
> On 17 Feb 2015, at 23:10, Benjamin Turner <bennyturns at gmail.com> 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 at gluster.org> wrote:
> > On 17 Feb 2015, at 21:49, Josh Boon <gluster at joshboon.com> 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 at gluster.org>
> > > To: "Gluster Users" <gluster-users at gluster.org>, "Gluster Devel"
> > > <gluster-devel at gluster.org>
> > > Cc: "Jesse Noller" <jesse.noller at rackspace.com>
> > > 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
> > >
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