Sorry, this is what I get for logging off for the night: short answer is YES. At the end of the day I want to showcase gluster' awesomeness and also be able to show users how to do it right in the cloud for shared, fault tolerant file systems
Jesse > On Feb 17, 2015, at 5:53 PM, Justin Clift <jus...@gluster.org> wrote: > > Yeah, that'd be pretty optimal. How full on do you want to go? > > Should we look into arranging some OnMetal stuff, in addition to the > VM offerings? > > Jesse, Ben is our *very best* GlusterFS and RHS performance tuning > expert, so capturing his interest is a *very* good thing. ;) > > + Justin > >> On 17 Feb 2015, at 23:10, Benjamin Turner <bennytu...@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 <jus...@gluster.org> wrote: >>> On 17 Feb 2015, at 21:49, Josh Boon <glus...@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" <jus...@gluster.org> >>> To: "Gluster Users" <gluster-us...@gluster.org>, "Gluster Devel" >>> <gluster-devel@gluster.org> >>> Cc: "Jesse Noller" <jesse.nol...@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 >>> >>> -- >>> GlusterFS - http://www.gluster.org >>> >>> An open source, distributed file system scaling to several >>> petabytes, and handling thousands of clients. >>> >>> My personal twitter: twitter.com/realjustinclift >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Gluster-devel mailing list >>> Gluster-devel@gluster.org >>> http://www.gluster.org/mailman/listinfo/gluster-devel >> >> -- >> GlusterFS - http://www.gluster.org >> >> An open source, distributed file system scaling to several >> petabytes, and handling thousands of clients. >> >> My personal twitter: twitter.com/realjustinclift >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Gluster-devel mailing list >> Gluster-devel@gluster.org >> http://www.gluster.org/mailman/listinfo/gluster-devel > > -- > GlusterFS - http://www.gluster.org > > An open source, distributed file system scaling to several > petabytes, and handling thousands of clients. > > My personal twitter: twitter.com/realjustinclift > _______________________________________________ Gluster-devel mailing list Gluster-devel@gluster.org http://www.gluster.org/mailman/listinfo/gluster-devel