View source for Benchmarking the Performance of Redhat Enterprise Virtualization (RHEV) running on GPFS and GlusterFS

= 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 https://www.redhat.com/en/technologies/virtualization]
: [1] [https://www.gluster.org/ https://www.gluster.org/]
: [2] [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_General_Parallel_File_System http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_General_Parallel_File_System]

= Contact =
[mailto:Nico.Schlitter@kit.edu Nico.Schlitter@kit.edu]