GlusterFS is a general purpose distributed scale-out filesystem that runs on commodity hardware. In this presentation, Vijay Bellur will provide an architectural overview of GlusterFS and discuss how this architecture can be used to build a scale-out storage solution for modern datacenter needs. Details on new features in GlusterFS 3.6 & 3.7 releases , use cases and interesting challenges with GlusterFS will be provided. As part of this session, Vijay will also discuss integration of GlusterFS with other open source ecosystems like OpenStack, Apache Hadoop, oVirt and provide future directions of the GlusterFS project including GlusterFS 4.0.
