Description
Red Hat® Gluster Storage is an open, software-defined scale-out storage platform to easily manage unstructured data for physical, virtual, and cloud environments. Red Hat Gluster Storage combines both file and object storage with a scale-out architecture, designed to cost-effectively store and manage petabyte-scale data growth. Red Hat Gluster Storage delivers a continuous storage fabric across physical, virtual, and cloud resources so customers can transform their big, semi-structured, and unstructured data from a burden to an asset. Red Hat Gluster Storage is used for storing various kinds of unstructured data including:
- Rich media content like videos, images and audio files
- Backup-images and Nearline archives
- Big data—Log files, RFID data, and other machine-generated data
- Virtual machine images
Built on the industry-leading Red Hat Enterprise Linux® operating system, Red Hat Gluster Storage lets customers deploy cost-effective and highly available storage without compromising scale or performance. Red Hat Gluster Storage eliminates storage silos by enabling global access to data through multiple file and object protocols. It is also designed to work seamlessly with industrystandard x86 commodity servers. Red Hat Gluster Storage can easily be deployed on-premise, in public cloud infrastructures, and in hybrid cloud environments. It is optimized for storage-intensive enterprise workloads such as archiving and backup, rich media content delivery, enterprise drop-box, cloud and business applications, virtual and cloud infrastructure storage, as well as emerging workloads such as co-resident applications and big data Hadoop workloads.
Benefits to the enterprise
Today, enterprises are often faced with disparate storage silos, geographically dispersed among many datacenters around the globe. Red Hat Gluster Storage lets enterprises eliminate their silos and unify their data by provisioning and managing storage regardless of whether it is on-premise, virtualized, or in a public cloud infrastructure.
Red Hat gluster storage:Ideal for private clouds
Scalability and flexibility without disruption
Red Hat Gluster Storage is designed for unlimited scalability; storage can be added or removed while data continues to be available. Bit-rot detection helps ensure the integrity of that data. Additionally, the elastic, scale-out architecture of Red Hat Gluster Storage lets users seamlessly grow storage to meet the dynamic needs of virtual environments.
Easy to deploy
An ISO image installs on a server or supported hypervisors (e.g., Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization and VMware vSphere/ESXi) for quick deployment.
High performance at a lower cost
Red Hat Gluster Storage uses an elastic hashing algorithm to locate data in the storage pool (by calculating a hash on the filename), removing a common source of I/O bottlenecks and vulnerability to failure. This, coupled with its large-capacity scalability, gives users better performance at a lower cost. Also lowering costs is erasure coding, which reduces capacity requirements for archives and cold storage at a lower cost per gigabyte.
Benefits to the enterprise
Enterprises can eliminate their dependence on costly, monolithic storage arrays that are difficult to scale. With Red Hat Gluster Storage, enterprises can easily deploy commodity hardware in minutes for scalable, high-performance storage in their datacenters, or in hybrid cloud environments.
Red Hat gluster storage for public cloud
Single global namespace
AWS users can aggregate both Amazon Elastic Block Storage (EBS) and Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) instances within AWS environments, creating a highly available, virtualized storage pool.
Superior amazon EC2 experience
Red Hat Gluster Storage for public cloud eliminates capacity limitations of a single device and levels out performance variations across the pool, so Amazon EC2 customers experience superior availability and performance.
High Availability
Red Hat Gluster Storage for public cloud provides synchronous replication and asynchronous geo-replication, so data is synchronously mirrored across availability zones and asynchronously across regions within AWS.
No application re-writes
Migrate existing POSIX applications to the cloud without making modifications.
Benefits to the enterprise
As enterprises struggle with the explosive growth of unstructured data and the accelerating virtualization of computing environments, Red Hat Gluster Storage for public cloud provides an ideal solution for cloud storage. It simplifies the task of managing unstructured file data, whether users have a few terabytes of storage or multiple petabytes, without acquiring new hardware.
Red Hat gluster storage for hybrid cloud
Built in replication for data protection
Red Hat Gluster Storage for hybrid cloud uses replication to provide high availability across the datacenter and public cloud. Synchronous file replication provides local data replication to support business continuity. Asynchronous replication provides long-distance data replication for disaster recovery.
Easy migration to the cloud
Red Hat Gluster Storage for hybrid cloud is POSIX-compatible, so there’s no need to rewrite your applications when moving data or applications from your on-premise datacenter to the public cloud.
Simple, cost-effective data access
Benefits to the enterprise More and more enterprises are embracing hybrid cloud environments, using external clouds to host non-critical IT services and internal clouds for business-critical applications. With Red Hat Gluster Storage for hybrid cloud, enterprises can easily extend their datacenters to the cloud and achieve increased flexibility, unified data accessibility, enhanced security, and simplified management—all while minimizing cost.
