Red Hat Gluster Storage 3.2 lowers data integrity costs
Red Hat has announced the new version of Gluster Storage 3.2. The update comes preloaded with several performance improvements as well as deeper integration with Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform.
Focusing on performance improvements, Red Hat Gluster
Storage 3.2 provides data integrity at a lower cost. There is enhanced integration with OpenShift Container Platform that brings native support for advanced storage services like georeplication and in-flight encryption for applications deployed in containers.
“Red Hat Gluster Storage 3.2 marks a milestone in the life of the product. It brings together a number of innovations that are relevant to the modern CIO,” said Ranga Rangachari, vice president and general manager of storage, Red Hat.
Red Hat claims that the upgraded OpenShift Container Platform support can enable three times as many persistent volumes per cluster. The newly added improvements also offer a smaller hardware footprint through arbiter volumes and shrink infrastructure costs while maintaining data integrity. They also fix the problem of data mismatch between two nodes.
Customers running traditional NAS use cases for backup/restore can achieve data integrity, while hyper-converged configurations in branch offices can save on hardware costs, power and data centre space. The software package also comes with the Nagios framework to monitor storage operations.
The latest Gluster Storage version has also fixed to scale metadataintensive operations for large files.
Red Hat believes that faster metadataintensive operations can improve daily operations by 8x. The new release is focused on the software-defined storage industry.
Microsoft has responded to a thread in Hacker News announcing the fix. According to Edgar Hernandez from the OneDrive team, the StaticLoad.aspx page that pre-fetches resources in the background for Office apps was a less efficient technique causing the earlier-mentioned issue. He also clarified that the issue was not intentional.
“The pre-fetching optimisation was disabled, and it will be enabled again soon after an update for StaticLoad.aspx has been tested on Linux and released. We apologise for the inconvenience this may have caused,” Hernandez wrote.
Alongside announcing the fix, Hernandez promised thorough Linux testing in the future. Microsoft apparently wants to make sure that OneDrive is a productive service for as many users as possible.