NFS-Ganesha and Distributed Storage Systems [Kaleb S. Keithley]
Channel: RedHatCzech
Date: 2016-02-15

Many enterprises still heavily depend on NFS servers to access their data from different operating systems and applications. Stand-alone systems have always been a bottleneck. It is immensely challenging to deploy a Highly Available, Clustered NFS server; especially on distributed storage systems. In this session, we will discuss the possible solutions and some important aspects in using NFS-Ganesha to scale out your storage needs. NFS-Ganesha is an extensible user-space NFS server which supports NFSv3,v4,v4.1,v4.2 and pNFS. It also has an easily pluggable architecture called FSAL (File System Abstraction Layer) which enables seamless integration with many filesystem backends (GlusterFS, Ceph, GPFS, Lustre, XFS etc.). We'll take a detailed look at the Clustered HA implementation by taking a specific example of a distributed storage, GlusterFS.