Short document of Red Hat Gluster Storage

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Red Hat Gluster Storage
Simple, Yes ! series
Get the point understanding of Red Hat Products in few minutes

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Red Hat Gluster Storage
All host's disks concatenating to one directory
10 TB
10 TB
10 TB
10 TB
40 TB
Red Hat Gluster Storage
You can use all disks like one volume !
IA Server
IA Server
IA Server
IA Server

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How about the view ?
/mnt
A folder on Windows client
(Network drive)
A directory on Linux

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Ideal use case
Using more big storage, you are more productive.
Target size: petabytes
as,
Network log analysis
HPC primary and intermediate data
Satellite remote sensing data
High resolution monitoring camera data
Any data for Big Data analysis

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How about data protection?
HDD drive on RAID 6
and replicating data on two nodes
IA Server
HDD

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When broke something
Replacing HDD by manual
Self-Heal from replicated node
IA Server
HDD
Failed unit
replacement
unit
replace the hardware unit
data
This simple structure makes very big scalable file system

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Installer DVD
x1
IA servers
x4
10GbE switch
x1
Cat 6 cables
x4
browser (PC)
x1
Red Hat Gluster Storage
Minimum installation
IA servers must be in compatibility list
https://access.redhat.com/site/articles/66206

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Documents of Red Hat Gluster Server
http://access.redhat.com

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History of the product
Before April 2015
Red Hat Storage Server (RHS)
After
Red Hat Gluster Storage (RHGS)

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Manual
l Red Hat Gluster Storage
https://access.redhat.com/documentation/Red_Hat_Storage/
for ver.3
3.0 Release Notes
3.0 Update 3 Release Notes
3.0 Update 4 Release Notes
Administration Guide
Configuring Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization with Red Hat Storage
Configuring Red Hat OpenStack with Red Hat Storage
Console Administration Guide
Console Command Line Shell Guide
Console Developer Guide
Console Installation Guide
Error Message Guide
Installation Guide
Package Manifest
Technical Notes