Red Hat Gluster Storage, formerly Red Hat Storage Server, is a computer storage product from

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. It is based on open source technologies such as GlusterFS and

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. The latest release, RHGS 3.5, combines Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL 8 and also RHEL 7) with the latest GlusterFS community release, oVirt, and

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File System. In April 2014, Red Hat re-branded GlusterFS-based Red Hat Storage Server to "Red Hat Gluster Storage".

Description

Red Hat Gluster Storage, a scale-out

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product, uses as its basis GlusterFS, a distributed file-system. Red Hat Gluster Storage also exemplifies

software-defined storage Software-defined storage (SDS) is a marketing term for computer data storage software for policy-based provisioning and management of data storage independent of the underlying hardware. Software-defined storage typically includes a form of storag ...

(SDS).

History

In June 2012, ''Red Hat Gluster Storage'' was announced as a commercially supported integration of GlusterFS with

. In 2022, it was announced Red Hat Gluster Storage version 3.5 will be the final version and this particular commercial offering will reach end-of-life at the end of 2024.

Releases

* 3.5 * 3.4 * 3.3 Release Notes * 3.2 * 3.1 * 3.0 * 2.1

References

Distributed data storage Distributed file systems Distributed file systems supported by the Linux kernel Network file systems Red Hat software Software using the GNU General Public License Userspace file systems Virtualization software for Linux {{compu-stub