New data protection and performance features give users storage for
extreme data portability and mobility
RALEIGH, N.C.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--
The Gluster
Community today announced the general availability of GlusterFS 3.7
open software-defined storage software. Feature-packed with performance
and data protection capabilities, GlusterFS 3.7 delivers effective
storage in data-intensive, high availability (HA) enterprise IT
environments.
GlusterFS 3.7 includes new data protection features, such as:
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Bitrot detection identifies disk errors that silently corrupt
data, by signing all files/objects in the volume, verifying data
periodically, and logging anomalies.
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Erasure-coded volumes provide a flexible, durable alternative
to traditional replicated volumes for capacity-optimized use cases.
GlusterFS 3.7 also includes several new performance and data
availability features, such as:
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Advanced NFS support
including Parallel NFS (pNFS) and Network
File System version 4 (NFSv4)
for Gluster volumes, including NFSv4 delegations (experimental
feature) and lease locks, reducing client-server interactions, and
enabling increased file operation performance in many scenarios.
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Highly-available NFS with NFSv4 delivers enhanced resource
monitoring and active-active failover capabilities using NFS-Ganesha.
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Performance enhancements based on a new multi-threaded model
results in overall reduced re-balance times at large scale and
improved storage cluster elasticity. Multi-thread events handle
metadata-intensive use cases, including small file workloads and
various unstructured data use cases.
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Efficient object count underpins the inode quota feature.
Optimized lookup of directory object count enables an efficient quota
capability based on number of files in a directory hierarchy.
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Volume tiering (experimental feature) provides policy-based
movement of data between fast and slow media tiers, enhancing
performance for many small file workloads. Default configuration
provides cache tiering for hot files automatically based on file
access patterns.
Supporting Quote
Tom Callaway, manager, software engineering, Open Source and
Standards, Red Hat
"Congratulations to the Gluster Community for delivering a rich set of
new features and capabilities in the new GlusterFS 3.7 scale-out
software-defined storage solution. We thank the growing number of
Gluster Community participants from organizations and companies around
the world for their tremendous contribution that brings advanced
security and data availability in the newest release of GlusterFS."
Additional Resources
About the Gluster Community
The Gluster Community uses community-driven innovation to enable
organizations to deploy GlusterFS, an open software-defined storage
fabric and platform for extreme data portability and mobility. Using
common off-the-shelf hardware and a stackable user interface, GlusterFS
delivers large, distributed storage for media streaming, data analysis,
and other data- and bandwidth-intensive applications. Free and open
source software, GlusterFS supports many petabytes of data through its
unified, poly-protocol scale-out filesystem architecture. To interact
with the Gluster Community on Twitter, follow @Gluster.
For more information about the Gluster Community visit www.gluster.org.
About Red Hat, Inc.
Red Hat is the world's leading provider of open source software
solutions, using a community-powered approach to reliable and
high-performing cloud, Linux, middleware, storage and virtualization
technologies. Red Hat also offers award-winning support, training, and
consulting services. As the connective hub in a global network of
enterprises, partners, and open source communities, Red Hat helps create
relevant, innovative technologies that liberate resources for growth and
prepare customers for the future of IT. Learn more at http://www.redhat.com.
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