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At the end of last week, I spied an exciting tweet about oVirt: Not long after I started using oVirt and Gluster together, the projects started talking about a way to improve Gluster performance by enabling virtualization hosts to access Gluster volumes directly, using Gluster’s libgfapi, rather than through a FUSE-mounted location on the virtualization host. There was a little bit of fit and finish work to be done, and then we’d all be basking in the glow of ~30%…
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One of the cooler new features in oVirt 3.1 is the platform’s support for creating and managing Gluster volumes. oVirt’s web admin console now includes a graphical tool for configuring these volumes, and vdsm, the service for responsible for controlling oVirt’s virtualization nodes, has a new sibling, vdsm-gluster, for handling the back end work. Gluster and oVirt make a good team — the scale out, open source storage project provides a nice way of weaving the local storage on individual compute nodes…
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