GlusterFS Reviews & Product Details

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

- 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.

- 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.