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
>>> 
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