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Gluster FS Purpose

This document will get you up to speed with some hands-on experience with Gluster by guiding you through the steps of setting it up for the first time. If you are looking to get right into things, you are in the right place. If you want just the bare minimum steps, see the Quick Start Guide.

If you want some in-depth information on each of the steps, you are in the right place. Both the guides will get you to a working Gluster cluster, so it depends on you how much time you want to spend. The Quick Start Guide should have you up and running in ten minutes or less. This guide can easily be done in a lunch break, and still gives you time to have a quick bite to eat. The Getting Started guide can be done easily in a few hours, depending on how much testing you want to do.

After you deploy Gluster by following these steps, we recommend that you read the Gluster Admin Guide to learn how to administer Gluster and how to select a volume type that fits your needs. Also, be sure to enlist the help of the Gluster community via the IRC channel or Q&A section . We want you to be successful in as short a time as possible. Overview:

Before we begin, let’s talk about what Gluster is, dispel a few myths and misconceptions, and define a few terms. This will help you to avoid some of the common issues that others encounter most frequently. What is Gluster

Gluster is a distributed scale out filesystem that allows rapid provisioning of additional storage based on your storage consumption needs. It incorporates automatic failover as a primary feature. All of this is accomplished without a centralized metadata server.