Best Software for 2025 is now live!
View the Winners
GlusterFS
Editedit
GlusterFS
By Red Hat
Show rating breakdown
4.3 out of 5 stars
See all 27 GlusterFS reviews
Save to My Lists
Unclaimed
Unclaimed
This profile is currently unclaimed by GlusterFS. All information listed is provided by G2.
Do you work at GlusterFS? Claim your profile to update your information.

Top Rated GlusterFS Alternatives

Your customers are talking about you.
Join the ConversationNew Tab
SponsoredYou’re seeing this ad based on the product’s relevance to this page. Sponsored content does not receive preferential treatment in any of G2’s ratings.
IBM Storage Ceph
(21)
4.2 out of 5
Apache Karaf
(24)
4.2 out of 5
See all GlusterFS Alternatives

GlusterFS Reviews & Product Details - Page 3

Editadmin

GlusterFS Overview

Editedit
What is GlusterFS?

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

GlusterFS Details
Discussions
GlusterFS Community
Show LessShow More
Product Description

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

Seller Details
Seller
Red Hat
Year Founded
1993
HQ Location
Raleigh, NC
Twitter
@RedHat
293,907 Twitter followers
LinkedIn® Page
www.linkedin.com
19,863 employees on LinkedIn®
Description

At Red Hat, they connect an innovative community of customers, partners, and contributors to deliver an open source stack of trusted, high-performing technologies that solve business problems.

Recent GlusterFS Reviews

Verified User
A
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
Read more
Verified User
U
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
Read more
Chamroeunrith C.
CC
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.
Read more
Security Badge
This seller hasn't added their security information yet. Let them know that you'd like them to add it.
0 people requested security information

GlusterFS Media

Answer a few questions to help the GlusterFS community
Have you used GlusterFS before?
Yes

27 GlusterFS Reviews

4.3 out of 5
The next elements are filters and will change the displayed results once they are selected.
Search reviews
Popular Mentions
The next elements are radio elements and sort the displayed results by the item selected and will update the results displayed.
Hide FiltersMore Filters
The next elements are filters and will change the displayed results once they are selected.
  • Company SizeExpand/Collapse Company Size Filter
  • User RoleExpand/Collapse User Role Filter
  • CategoryExpand/Collapse Category Filter
  • IndustryExpand/Collapse Industry Filter
  • RegionExpand/Collapse Region Filter
The next elements are filters and will change the displayed results once they are selected.
  • Sort By:
    G2 Sort
27 GlusterFS Reviews
4.3 out of 5
  • Sort By:
    G2 Sort
27 GlusterFS Reviews
4.3 out of 5
  • Sort By:
    G2 Sort

Overall Review Sentiment for GlusterFSQuestion

Time to Implement
<1 day
>12 months
Return on Investment
<6 months
48+ months
Ease of Setup
0 (Difficult)
10 (Easy)
Log In
Want to see more insights from verified reviewers?
Log in to view review sentiment.
G2 reviews are authentic and verified.
Here's how.
Alexandru B.
AB
Staff DevOps Engineer
Mid-Market(51-1000 emp.)
More Options
Validated Reviewer
Review source: G2 invite
Incentivized Review
What do you like best about GlusterFS?

High Availability.

Fault-tolerant.

Stability.

Great documentation. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about GlusterFS?

Good performance across a wide variety of storage needs.

Too good to be disliked! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering GlusterFS:

GlusterFS it's really simple and fast. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

It helps me scale out the system storage and increase the performance. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Show More
Show Less
Helpful?
Share
Admin Approval Link
Sergei N.
SN
Linux System Administrator at Stefanini EMEA
Information Technology and Services
Mid-Market(51-1000 emp.)
More Options
Validated Reviewer
Review source: G2 invite
Incentivized Review
What do you like best about GlusterFS?

Speed and stability.

Easy to maintain.

Good manual. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about GlusterFS?

Doesn't work on different Linux distributuves in one cluster as expected.

Ubuntu + Ubuntu - OK

Ubuntu + CentOS - NOK Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering GlusterFS:

Be patient. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

DB files are in safe now. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Show More
Show Less
Helpful?
Share
Admin Approval Link
Brian B.
BB
Implementation Engineer
Computer Software
Enterprise(> 1000 emp.)
More Options
Validated Reviewer
Review source: G2 invite
Incentivized Review
What do you like best about GlusterFS?

Easy to setup, works on cheap hardware. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about GlusterFS?

Nothing! Had no issues, everything was great. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Backing up petabytes of data from thousands of servers without expensive SAN hardware. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Show More
Show Less
Helpful?
Share
Admin Approval Link
Verified User in Pharmaceuticals
AP
Enterprise(> 1000 emp.)
More Options
Validated Reviewer
Review source: G2 invite
Incentivized Review
What do you like best about GlusterFS?

It is a reliable distributed filesystem for high availability scenarios. It does this well. O er low latencies. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about GlusterFS?

It sometimes in my experience uses a high amount of memory. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering GlusterFS:

Look over GlusterFS and Ceph. Sometimes block storage is a good way to go depending on usage. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Highly availability always on filesystem. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Show More
Show Less
Helpful?
Share
Admin Approval Link
Verified User in Banking
AB
Enterprise(> 1000 emp.)
More Options
Validated Reviewer
Review source: G2 invite
Incentivized Review
What do you like best about GlusterFS?

Ease of management and configuration and performance are the two things that really made us to use it. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about GlusterFS?

Troubleshooting performance issues is hard Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering GlusterFS:

Run in in Docker containers Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Shared storage for containers Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Show More
Show Less
Helpful?
Share
Admin Approval Link
Verified User in Financial Services
AF
Small-Business(50 or fewer emp.)
More Options
Validated Reviewer
Review source: G2 invite
Incentivized Review
What do you like best about GlusterFS?

It performs surprisingly well (when it's working). It's also able to scale considerably (horizontal as well as vertical). At best, it's transparent to the applications that depend on it. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about GlusterFS?

The auto-heal isn't reliable and the process to manually intervene is painful, not exact, and does not scale. Performance suffers when the volumes aren't at 100% health. If underlying I/O isn't consistent the volume can wobble. Community support isn't all that impressive. I will NOT choose GlusterFS for my next deployment. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering GlusterFS:

I would seriously consider other options, like Ceph, or the commercially supported version Red Had Storage (I think that's what it's called). Or if possible, avoid the need for a shared filesystem altogether! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Shared filesystems with POSIX compliance. Avoiding the requirement to have multi-writer .VMDKs in VMware. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Show More
Show Less
Helpful?
Share
Admin Approval Link
David A.
DA
Software Engineer
International Affairs
Small-Business(50 or fewer emp.)
More Options
Validated Reviewer
Review source: G2 invite
Incentivized Review
What do you like best about GlusterFS?

It is very easy to manage, has a simple cli and almost no maintenance. It also runs on commodity hardware, enterprise servers and cloud (VPS) with no issues. This was the solution we adopted to distribute data in a virtual datacenter some time ago and we faced no issues. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about GlusterFS?

It uses a quorum mechanism to decide what data is up-to-date and what node wins when "writing". This has it's pros and cons. On the upside, it simplifies the process to manage the cluster of servers in the system: you add servers as you go. On the down side, you need to provision a minimum of 3 servers and a good link between them: if you access a file that's not in the node it has to contact the node that has the actual data (as a proxy) while the data is replicated on the node. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Data replication at file level. In a world where websites and backends have to share a common state a number of different technologies have spread. GlusterFS solves the shared state at the filesystem level, and does the easy way. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Show More
Show Less
Helpful?
Share
Admin Approval Link
GlusterFS Categories on G2
Runtime
Runtime

GlusterFS Comparisons

Compare IBM Storage Ceph vs. GlusterFS
Compare IBM Storage Ceph vs. GlusterFS
GlusterFSVSIBM Storage Ceph
Compare GlusterFS vs. Apache Karaf
Compare GlusterFS vs. Apache Karaf
GlusterFSVSApache Karaf
Compare GlusterFS ratings to similar products

Explore More

Google Cloud BigQuery reviews
Natural Language Understanding (NLU)
Best Graphic Design Software
PCB Design Software
AI Regulations in the EU
Out of Office Messages
Quasi Contract
Anti Money Laundering (AML)
Automating HR with Robotic Process as a Service
GlusterFS