Clustered File System

The start-up maker Parascale announced the development of a new cloud storage product that could connect hardware from different server vendors into a storage pool of clustered file system software. "We are a software provider that can implement private cloud storage and public cloud storage," said Mike Maxey, director of Parascale product management. When you add a node to a cloud or delete a node, it can balance the storage capacity. "Parascale's clustered file system software can be compatible with VMware products that will be different manufacturers of servers in user fire ...

Glusterfs is a clustered file system that scales files to several PB of data volumes. It gathers multiple storage bricks into a large parallel network file system through InfiniBand RDMA and http://www.aliyun.com/zixun/aggregation/29912.html ">TCP/IP technology. Glusterfs is based on a scalable user space design without impacting performance. Gluster/glusterfs ...