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Red Hat Acquiring Cloud Storage Company Gluster
Julie188 writes "One of the more interesting aspects of Red Hat's acquisition of virtual storage vendor Gluster on Tuesday is how it drags Red Hat into bed with its cloud competitor OpenStack. Red Hat made waves over the summer in the open source community when one of its executives threw punches at OpenStack's community, saying the community amounted to not much more than a bunch of press releases. In July, Gluster contributed its Connector for OpenStack. It enables features such as live migration of VMs, instant boot of VMs, and movement of VMs between clouds on a GlusterFS environment. While Fedora has already said that its upcoming Fedora 16 would support OpenStack, Fedora is a community distro and not beholden to Red Hat. However, Red Hat today promised that it would continue to support and maintain Gluster's contribution to OpenStack. It didn't, however, to promise to quit the smack talk."
Not a shit was given today about anything.
No shit. So this guy is an employee of RH and has a personal disdain of OpenStack. So fucking what? I haven't seen evidence that everyone else at RH agrees with him. I haven't even seen evidence that this is official company policy, all employees must comform or be fired, and this is more than one man's feelings. Hey world, did you know that different people involved in any large industry might have different opinions about different projects? Wow, this is real breaking news. This is earth-shattering. This is amazing and unprecedented in every way.
This is great news, Redhat will keep it open source. I'm glad Oracle didn't get their hands on it and commercialize it like they did MySQL (The commercial plugins in 5.5.16 is what I'm referencing). I much prefer Redhat's approach.
RHEV Manager is an ActiveX Control that runs in Internet Explorer only! A Linux-based virtualization manager? RedHat doesn't even have press releases about it. I don't know OpenStack, but I'd rather have nothing more than feelings than require my customers to buy my competitor's OS and use a very specific ugly feature of that OS to claim I had something.
Ummm. Not Mr Current are you?
RHEV 3 is java based and runs on Linux/Windows/Solaris etc
So OpenStack is a hypervisor independent private cloud API. Its corporate backers include Rackspace, NASA, and Dell. There is a similar competing product called CloudStack, by Citrix. The Citrix CloudStack team has integrated a number of OpenStack components into their own product, and have contributed code back to OpenStack as well.
As far as I know, RHEV does not compete with either of those products head on. RHEV is for managing kvm, and maybe xen, hypervisor(s). It is primarily a management frontend for RedHat's supported hypervisors. While CloudStack and OpenStack are Amazon-like private cloud APIs which support a number of different vendors' hypervisors.
/^([Ss]ame [Bb]at (time, |channel.)){2}$/
Could you try a little harder to gin up some phony controversy around Fedora?
Maybe it will become part of the RHEL distro now, instead of the insane support contracts they had, at $800/node per year for 5 email support calls. For a FS that works better on more nodes... we quickly went running when they told us the costs. That kind of support doesn't work well on a cluster.
Best part of acquisition: Gluster fsck
Unfortunately not it would seem according to this.
As your volume size grows beyond 32TBs, fsck (filesystem check) downtime becomes a huge problem. GlusterFS has no fsck. It heals itself transparently with very little impact on performance.
Bye, n00b. :)
Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law
Not for long... http://ovirt.org/. Kick-off workshop in November.
How exciting.
But wait! OpenStack already exists and is being used in live, people-are-using-it, Cloud platforms. Guess RedHat can save themselves the trouble and cancel that kick-off workshop. Phew, glad we caught that one in time!
Excuse me. Driver? I know you're busy driving this speeding bus towards the cliff, but could you slow down a little bit and explain to me where we are going?
Seriously, where are we going with this cloud based computing and storage spaghetti. I know that Google uses massively scaled and distributed systems to great success in the cloud but, most of us aren't building search engines. In fact, in business, most of us aren't building anything to do with the web.
So, how does spreading out the processing and now the storage all over creation benefit the average enterprise that is trying to make a unique subset of proprietary and typically legacy applications faster and more available? All the virtualization and distribution that I have seen to date effectively robs us of performance, stealing CPU cycles and increasing disk I/O latency. Stand up a virtualized server on all new super high performance clusters and cloudy SANs next to a three years old dedicated server and the performance is slightly less than the old installation. How is this progress?
Spreading out the storage not only slows it down but makes true resiliency insanely expensive for less than massive data centers and I won't even bother with the compliance headaches that willy nilly distribution brings to the table. I'd like a for-realzy answer to this question, not some ethereal hand waving or declarations that everything must be rewritten in RubyJava.Net and shipped to the cloud or I'll look like a fool.
For some reason, I read that as Cluster F*ck... Twice.
Best part of acquisition: Gluster fsck
Unfortunately not it would seem according to this.
As your volume size grows beyond 32TBs, fsck (filesystem check) downtime becomes a huge problem. GlusterFS has no fsck. It heals itself transparently with very little impact on performance.
It was meant as a joke: Gluster rhymes with cluster, fsck is often used by Slashdotters for f*ck
There is also deltacloud ( aeolus, etc ). Deltacloud aim to manage "clouds" with different backend, like libvirt for xen, kvm, lxc, vmware, etc.