GlusterFS is a designed for general purpose scalable NAS workload. Goals are - massive
scalability, parallelism and open standards hardware. We are working towards ease-of-use,
and management/monitoring framework.
We are adding a series of optimizations for virtualized/cloud computing environment in our
upcoming releases. In terms of databases, we have not officially certified for any
database implementations yet.
SAN is a network block device. If you need dedicated (exclusive) block access to your
storage, then SAN is your choice. If you are using SAN as a backend for NAS, GlusterFS
works well there as well.
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Kent Tong wrote:
Hi,
What are the intended use cases for gluster? For example, is it suitable for,
say, replacing a SAN? For example, is it good for the following?
[ ] Storing a huge volume of seldom accessed files (file archive)
[ ] Storing frequently read/write files (file server)
[ ] Storing frequently read files (web server)
[ ] Hosting databases
[ ] Hosting VM images
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