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What is Gluster ?
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Gluster is a scalable, distributed file system that aggregates disk storage resources from multiple servers into a single global namespace.
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### Advantages
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* Scales to several petabytes
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* Handles thousands of clients
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* POSIX compatible
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* Uses commodity hardware
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* Can use any ondisk filesystem that supports extended attributes
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* Accessible using industry standard protocols like NFS and SMB
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* Provides replication, quotas, geo-replication, snapshots and bitrot detection
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* Allows optimization for different workloads
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* Open Source
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Enterprises can scale capacity, performance, and availability on demand, with no vendor lock-in, across on-premise, public cloud, and hybrid environments.
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Gluster is used in production at thousands of organisations spanning media, healthcare, government, education, web 2.0, and financial services.
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### Commercial offerings and support
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Several companies offer support or [consulting](https://www.gluster.org/support/).
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[Red Hat Gluster Storage](http://www.redhat.com/en/technologies/storage/gluster)
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is a commercial storage software product, based on Gluster.
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