A Conversation About Storage Clustering: Gluster VS Ceph (PART 2)

In the following 3-part video series, co-founder Doug Milburn sits down with Lead R&D Engineer Brett Kelly to discuss storage clustering. More specifically, taking a deeper look into two open-source clustering platforms; Ceph and Gluster.
In part 2, Brett discusses in more detail the differences between GlusterFS and CephFS; giving an outline that will help determine which open-source software is best for your infrastructure.
For more information, continue watching part 3 or visit: www.45drives.c...

[@NTmatter]

5:18 - "...there's always a business case for everything, right?" - You can tell that Brett has seen some scary things in his professional life. Such is the price of experience.

[@elabeddhahbi3301]

how to learn ceph do you know a book can help me to start

[@Aviral.Bharadwaj]

Hello Brett, I just want to know for a Game Development Company which one I should go for freenas vs ceph vs gluster ? Note: The game projects are really huge and can easily grow to 50GB+ with many folders and lots of meta data in the folder. Team size of 50+ members will be hitting the servers simultaneously . Everybody is going to work directly on the network drives only. Which one would you like to recommend ?

[@45Drives]

We suggest to keep it as simple as possible. If you can do it with FreeNAS, use FreeNAS. If you think it's going to be massive and grow to something even bigger, use CEPH.

[@Aviral.Bharadwaj]

@@45Drives Okay got it. I will definitely be contacting your team for the Storinator box a little later when I actually will deploy the project. I really the case design and the high density which can be achieved in 4U chassis :)

[@45Drives]

@@Aviral.Bharadwaj We look forward to chatting with you soon!!

[@marcello4258]

Wow.. no word about data integrity. First of all, all what gluster can, is doable in ZFS with transparent checksumming (among other gimmicks).. secondly you are saying ceoh runs fine on commodity hardware.. bitrot is a problem as well as not having ECC.. what about scrubbing? Sure I will look in the docs now, but you talk on a nice level about SDS but this is something really important. That is also the main reason why I think Redhat is doing wrong with ditching btrfs without shipping openzfs as an option like other enterprise distros. So why would someone use gluster over a lightweight FreeBSD server for instance

[@bluesquare23]

This guy looks like if William Osman had his shit together.