Benchmarking the Performance of Redhat Enterprise Virtualization (RHEV) running on GPFS and GlusterFS
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Description
Within the Smart Data Innovation Lab we are using the Redhat Enterprise Virtualization [0] to provide virtual machines to users. Currently, the scalable network file system GlusterFS [1] is used to store the virtual disk images of the virtual machines.
The objective of this project is to evaluate a possible migration from GlusterFS to the IBM General Parallel File System (GPFS) [1]. An important part of the evaluation is a comparison between GlusterFS and GPFS in terms of performance.
Tasks
- research about RHEV, GlusterFS and GPFS
- setting up a test environment of RHEV using GlusterFS and GPFS
- benchmarking the performance
Useful qualifications
- experience in benchmarking system performance
- knowledge about parallel file systems
References
- [0] https://www.redhat.com/en/technologies/virtualization
- [1] https://www.gluster.org/
- [2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_General_Parallel_File_System
