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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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4.5 out of 5
"Best Storage for your cloud"
easy to configure and also offers a good deal of automation features
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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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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.

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What do you like best about GlusterFS?

That glusterd service running on all nodes to sync the data between the all nodes. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about GlusterFS?

The io performance issue for work loads with large number of small files. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering GlusterFS:

It’s easy to use and setup and it’s high availability feature is also improved. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Improved High availability features specially for online websites.

Less complicated while setup. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about GlusterFS?

I like its high availability feature as how. Efficiently the data . Its scalable and distributed file system . Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about GlusterFS?

Its performance issue while writing data on different nodes. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

It has a great features including high availability and efficiently storage properties. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about GlusterFS?

You can use any hardware to put a linux distro and install, very fast and reliable. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about GlusterFS?

Upgrade is a mess for major versions, especially when there are lots of breaking changes. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering GlusterFS:

Watchout when upgrading Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Using for a distributed Hybris application as shared folder Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about GlusterFS?

Use of commodity hardware, scalability, stability. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about GlusterFS?

Earlier versions had some strange issues but everything seems great now. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Large distributed storage pools on commodity hardware easily scaled with our configuration management and hardware provisioning system. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about GlusterFS?

Easily provisions and integration with Kubernetes Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about GlusterFS?

Does not provide redundancy, but other then this product is good. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering GlusterFS:

Good to use, and it's product Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Nfs mounting to Kubernetes Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about GlusterFS?

Geo location is helpful for me And also dist-replica. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about GlusterFS?

Glusterfs should support for block storage and object Storage Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

I faced problem with nfs tls. When i disabled tls than solved Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about GlusterFS?

The best about this service is that you can build a shared storage solution without invest to mucho money, time and efforts and you will have high valuable benefits like:

- High availability

- Read/write balance

- Data striping

- Fault tolerant

Additional, just to say that works within several Linux distros like Centos, Debian, Ubuntu... (although Red Hat is the owner). Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about GlusterFS?

There is not anything specially disgusting about this service because the installation and up & running process is easy and fast.

Maybe, to understand how it works or what is the best configuration for your project/infrastructure could be the process which take more time. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering GlusterFS:

A good choice if are you looking for a solution whith the requirements already mentioned. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Problem solved:

- High available shared storage system in a LAMP/LEMP infrastructure.

Benefits:

- Low investment, as time as effort and money

- Low support level needed Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about GlusterFS?

I liked the easiness of setup compared to solutions like CEPH, high reliability. GlusterFS really plugged in nicely in existing stack without any complications. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about GlusterFS?

Performance with small files, if you got like billions of small files - that's probably not the best way to do it, but other solutions are also suffering with them. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering GlusterFS:

Use it for big files, it's great Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Moving video data for advertising platform. Best thing about it - it's easily observable system. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about GlusterFS?

The HA that GlusterFS provides is useful for ensuring that persistent storage is always available for stateful application running on Kubernetes. Ease of failover makes the user oblivious to changes to the storage source, making administration easier. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about GlusterFS?

The complication in configuration and maintenance is a bit much for non technical users - this is where using a native NFS solution sounds better. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

The high availability nature of storage that is difficult to solve with traditional NFS. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.