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Gluster Rocks the Vote
Rock the Vote needed a way to manage the fast growth of the data handled by its Web-based voter registration application. The organization turned to GlusterFS replicated volumes to allow for filesystem size upgrades on its virtualized hosting infrastructure without incurring downtime. Over its twenty-one year history, Rock the Vote has registered more than five…
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oVirt on oVirt: Nested KVM Fu
I’m a big fan of virtualization — the ability to take a server and slice it up into a bunch of virtual machines makes life trying out and writing about software much, much easier than it’d be in a one instance per server world. Things get tricky, however, when the software you want to try…
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Gluster User Story: Fedora Hosted
The Fedora Project’s infrastructure team needed a way to ensure the reliability of its Fedora Hosted service, while making the most of their available hardware resources. The team tapped GlusterFS replicated volumes to convert what had been a two-node, active/passive, eventually consistent hosting configuration into a well-synchronized setup in which both nodes could take on…
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openshift and some php app debugging
This morning I was trying to help figure out why a slick new Mediawiki skin was working just fine on an OpenShift-hosted Mediawiki instance, but was totally borked on a second Mediawiki instance, running on a VPS server. Both the VPS and OpenShift run on the same OS: Red Hat Enterprise Linux. Both were running…
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engine-iso-uploader wrinkles
I’ve been installing oVirt 3.1 on some shiny new lab equipment, and I came across a pair of interesting snags with engine-iso-uploader, a tool you can use to upload iso images to your oVirt installation. I installed the tool on a F17 client machine and festooned the command with the many arguments required to send…
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A Buzzword-Packed Return to Gluster UFO
A little while back, I tested out the Unified File and Object feature in Gluster 3.3, which taps OpenStack’s Swift component to handle the object half of the file and object combo. It took me kind of a long time to get it all running, so I was pleased to find this blog post promising a…
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oVirt 3.1, Glusterized
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…
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Too Fast, Too Slow
Yesterday I removed Fedora 17 from the server I use for oVirt testing, mainly, because I’ve been experiencing random reboots on the server, and I haven’t been able to figure out why. I’m pretty sure I wasn’t having these issues on Fedora 16, but I can’t go back to that release because the official packages…
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Up and Running with oVirt, 3.1 Edition
Update: I’ve written an updated version of this guide for oVirt 3.2. Last February or so, I wrote a post about getting up and running with oVirt, the open source virtualization management project, on a single test machine. Various things have changed since then, such as a shiny new oVirt 3.1 release, so I’m going…
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Screencasting oVirt
There’s work underway over at the oVirt Project to produce some screencasts of the open source virtualization management platform in action. Since you can find oVirt in action each day in my home office, I set out to chip in and create an oVirt screencast, using tools available on my Fedora 17 desktop. Here’s the…
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