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What do you like best about GlusterFS?

Great level of Fault tolerance, Gluster Storage is relatively easy to deploy and configure, Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about GlusterFS?

not easy to manage,one must pay attention and test the solution for required workloads. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is GlusterFS solving and how is that benefiting you?

hardware server cost is greatly minimized Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What is GlusterFS?

GlusterFS is an open source, distributed storage system capable of scaling to several petabytes and handling thousands of clients.

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GlusterFS is an open source, distributed storage system capable of scaling to several petabytes and handling thousands of clients.


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Verified UserMid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
4.5 out of 5
"High performance and reliability pooled storage"
Gluster has the advantages of NFS and extends its functionality
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Verified UserSmall-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
4.5 out of 5
"Best Storage for your cloud"
easy to configure and also offers a good deal of automation features
Chamroeunrith C.
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Chamroeunrith C.Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
5.0 out of 5
"Best Software Distributed Storage over Network"
its easy to scale the space, and not worry if one node down its not affect the storage usage.
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4.3 out of 5

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Verified User in Computer & Network Security
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What do you like best about GlusterFS?

Gluster has the advantages of NFS and extends its functionality Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about GlusterFS?

Gluster security is a bit of a pain to set up Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is GlusterFS solving and how is that benefiting you?

The biggest problems solved have to be pooled storage for VMs, Kubernetes, and elasticsearch. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Chamroeunrith C.
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What do you like best about GlusterFS?

its easy to scale the space, and not worry if one node down its not affect the storage usage. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about GlusterFS?

command line, if possible should enable in GUI mode such as web GUI. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is GlusterFS solving and how is that benefiting you?

before we have many linux server link together and later on we try to find out the way to link it together, then glusterfs is the best way that solve our problem, link multiple hdd between multiple server over network. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about GlusterFS?

easy to configure and also offers a good deal of automation features Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about GlusterFS?

Quick network infrastructure is needed which is sometimes not desirable Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is GlusterFS solving and how is that benefiting you?

we are solving file storage in a distributed fashion. Network load distribution is great and offers great reliability. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about GlusterFS?

Stability, security and cloud integration with automatic backup per section Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about GlusterFS?

Configure and devices with automatic backup Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering GlusterFS:

Tests and data series Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is GlusterFS solving and how is that benefiting you?

Trial and error, security and open source, serial devices to find faults Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about GlusterFS?

I have used GlusterFS on a cluster of docker in which GlusterFS helped me to satisfy the HA and the load balancing purpose. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about GlusterFS?

Actually i didn't have any problem and it worked perfectly. Just mounting the GlusterFS could not be automated and after every reboot before starting the service I had to mount the partition manually. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering GlusterFS:

A very usefull shared file system for Docker platform Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is GlusterFS solving and how is that benefiting you?

storage sharing in a cluster. It worked perfectly Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

sagar p.
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What do you like best about GlusterFS?

GluserFS provides Elastic File System solutions for the On-Prem cloud solution.

GlusterFs geo-replication is one of the best features I most liked. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about GlusterFS?

GlusterFS Logging is difficult to understand Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering GlusterFS:

I believe, GlusterFs is similar to the AWS EFS solution for On-Prem cloud users.

You can leverage its geo-replication feature to store your data to remote locations. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is GlusterFS solving and how is that benefiting you?

Distributing release files to geographically distributed data centers. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Alwyn V.
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What do you like best about GlusterFS?

I used glusterfs on laravel to load balance my storage. It absolutely served my purpose and was simple to setup. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about GlusterFS?

With laravel it was a little complex to implement Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is GlusterFS solving and how is that benefiting you?

I used glusterfs on laravel to load balance my storage. It absolutely served my purpose and was simple to setup. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about GlusterFS?

GFS is very straightforward to setup. I liked it because this was stable. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about GlusterFS?

I have nothing to say here because I was having issues with my other distributed filesystem and I used GFS as an alternative and it really saved my project from failing. So I really liked it. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is GlusterFS solving and how is that benefiting you?

Well the problems I was facing with my previous distributed filesystem was that it was taking too much time for synchronizing data across multiple disks and hence resulting into issues during a disaster recovery scenario.

I solved this problem by using GFS instead. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about GlusterFS?

GlusterFS is relatively easy to configure and also lends itself pretty well to automation, for example via ansible. The documentation is mostly clear, at least on the conceptual level, and it comes through clearly that there is a powerful set of enterprise features behind it, especially for people with lower budgets. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about GlusterFS?

At times the documentation feels inconsistent. Also, my use case where I PoC-ed GlusterFS was for something where there were many millions of small files. For this, it did not perform very well. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering GlusterFS:

Definitely test performance for use cases such as few large files vs many small ones. Make sure to use automation and orchestration if you want to scale out, but even for as few as 3 nodes it is worth it. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is GlusterFS solving and how is that benefiting you?

On a base level, I think Gluster works well for small installs of 3 nodes, and replication is consistent, HA is achieved, but I have not succeeded in solving a larger scale-out problem of many files and many terabytes of storage used. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Viktor K.
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What do you like best about GlusterFS?

- GlusterFS is a free and friendly user distributed file system.

- Works on top of the main file system.

- Easy to increase or decrease the number of bricks.

- GlusterFS supports 5 types of distribution of content combined in volume.

- Possibility of use GlusterFS in the Proxmox system.

- GlusterFS performs well on local networks. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about GlusterFS?

- The write speed is normal, but the read speed is low.

- The process of replacing a brick is quite long. There is also a drawdown reading and writing from the source. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering GlusterFS:

Basically Glusterfs is a great open-source system that can help you with creating a backup system.

Maybe later the system will be faster and all the questions will be a thing of the past. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is GlusterFS solving and how is that benefiting you?

Created a backup system in Proxmox virtualization, all virtual machines make backups on GlusterFS servers. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.