into this article . discuss proposed since may 2015 . gluster inc. type privately funded industry software computer storage founded 2005 headquarters sunnyvale california and bangalore india number of locations 2 key people anand babu ab periasamy cto products cloud storage number of employees 60 website www.gluster.com gluster inc. was a software company that provided an open source platform for scale out public and private cloud storage . the company was privately funded and headquartered in sunnyvale california with an engineering center in bangalore india . gluster was funded by nexus venture partners and index ventures . gluster was acquired by red hat on october 7 2011 . 1 contents 1 history 2 architecture 2.1 public cloud deployment 2.2 private cloud deployment 3 references 4 external links history edit the name gluster combined gnu and cluster . despite the similarity in names gluster is not related to the lustre file system and does not incorporate any lustre code . gluster based its product on glusterfs an open source software based network attached filesystem that deploys on commodity hardware . 2 the initial version of glusterfs was written by anand babu periasamy gluster s founder and cto . 3 in may 2010 ben golub became the president and chief executive officer . 4 5 red hat is the primary author and maintainer of the glusterfs open source project . the gluster open source community consists of over 8000 user developers . architecture edit the glusterfs architecture aggregates compute storage and i o resources into a global namespace . each server plus attached commodity storage configured as direct attached storage jbod or using a storage area network is considered to be a node . capacity is scaled by adding additional nodes or adding additional storage to each node . performance is increased by deploying storage among more nodes . high availability is achieved by replicating data n way between nodes but comes at the expense of reliability . 6 public cloud deployment edit for public cloud deployments glusterfs offers an amazon web services aws amazon machine image ami which is deployed on elastic compute cloud ec2 instances rather than physical servers and the underlying storage is amazon s elastic block storage ebs . 7 in this environment capacity is scaled by deploying more ebs storage units performance is scaled by deploying more ec2 instances and availability is scaled by n way replication between aws availability zones . private cloud deployment edit a typical on premises or private cloud deployment will consist of glusterfs installed as a virtual appliance on top of multiple commodity servers running hypervisors such as kvm xen or vmware ; or on bare metal . 8 references edit red hat to acquire gluster . redhat.com . october 4 2011 . retrieved 2013 08 16 . gluster open source scale out nas . infostor.com . 2011 02 17 . retrieved 2013 08 16 . kovar joseph f. page 17 2010 storage superstars 25 you need to know . crn.com . retrieved 2013 08 16 . jason kincaid may 18 2010 . former plaxo ceo ben golub joins gluster an open source storage platform startup . tech crunch . retrieved august 20 2013 . former plaxo ceo takes top spot at gluster . silicon valley business journal . may 19 2010 . retrieved august 20 2013 . split brain troubleshooting . nathan eddy 2011 02 11 . gluster introduces nas virtual appliances for vmware amazon web services . eweek.com . retrieved 2013 08 16 . gluster virtual storage appliance . storage switzerland llc . retrieved 1 september 2013 . external links edit free software portal official website retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title gluster & oldid 704650061 categories computer storage companiesfree softwaresoftware companies based in the san francisco bay areacloud storagecompanies based in sunnyvale californiahidden categories articles to be merged from may 2015all articles to be merged navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages magyar edit links this page was last modified on 12 february 2016 at 19 07 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; additional terms may apply . by using this site you agree to the terms of use and privacy policy . wikipedia is a registered trademark of the wikimedia foundation inc. a non profit organization . privacy policy about wikipedia disclaimers contact wikipedia developers cookie statement mobile view