[Gluster-users] Kudos to All

[Lindsay Mathieson]

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.

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. 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 :)

Cheers,

-- 
Lindsay Mathieson