# GlusterFS Reviews **Vendor:** Red Hat **Category:** [Runtime Software](https://www.g2.com/categories/runtime) **Average Rating:** 4.3/5.0 **Total Reviews:** 27 ## About GlusterFS GlusterFS is an open source, distributed storage system capable of scaling to several petabytes and handling thousands of clients. ## GlusterFS Reviews ### 1. High performance and reliability pooled storage **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer & Network Security | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 03, 2022 **What do you like best about GlusterFS?** Gluster has the advantages of NFS and extends its functionality **What do you dislike about GlusterFS?** Gluster security is a bit of a pain to set up **What problems is GlusterFS solving and how is that benefiting you?** The biggest problems solved have to be pooled storage for VMs, Kubernetes, and elasticsearch. ### 2. Best Software Distributed Storage over Network **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Chamroeunrith C. | Director of Information Technology, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 25, 2020 **What do you like best about GlusterFS?** its easy to scale the space, and not worry if one node down its not affect the storage usage. **What do you dislike about GlusterFS?** command line, if possible should enable in GUI mode such as web GUI. **What problems is GlusterFS solving and how is that benefiting you?** before we have many linux server link together and later on we try to find out the way to link it together, then glusterfs is the best way that solve our problem, link multiple hdd between multiple server over network. ### 3. Best Storage for your cloud **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 28, 2021 **What do you like best about GlusterFS?** easy to configure and also offers a good deal of automation features **What do you dislike about GlusterFS?** Quick network infrastructure is needed which is sometimes not desirable **What problems is GlusterFS solving and how is that benefiting you?** we are solving file storage in a distributed fashion. Network load distribution is great and offers great reliability. ### 4. Distribute data **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Isabella M. | Open Source, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 01, 2021 **What do you like best about GlusterFS?** Stability, security and cloud integration with automatic backup per section **What do you dislike about GlusterFS?** Configure and devices with automatic backup **Recommendations to others considering GlusterFS:** Tests and data series **What problems is GlusterFS solving and how is that benefiting you?** Trial and error, security and open source, serial devices to find faults ### 5. Docker shared FS with GlusterFS **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Mohsen H. | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 24, 2020 **What do you like best about GlusterFS?** I have used GlusterFS on a cluster of docker in which GlusterFS helped me to satisfy the HA and the load balancing purpose. **What do you dislike about GlusterFS?** Actually i didn't have any problem and it worked perfectly. Just mounting the GlusterFS could not be automated and after every reboot before starting the service I had to mount the partition manually. **Recommendations to others considering GlusterFS:** A very usefull shared file system for Docker platform **What problems is GlusterFS solving and how is that benefiting you?** storage sharing in a cluster. It worked perfectly ### 6. Elastic File System for your On-Prem Cloud **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** sagar p. | Technical Services Engineer, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 12, 2020 **What do you like best about GlusterFS?** GluserFS provides Elastic File System solutions for the On-Prem cloud solution. GlusterFs geo-replication is one of the best features I most liked. **What do you dislike about GlusterFS?** GlusterFS Logging is difficult to understand **Recommendations to others considering GlusterFS:** I believe, GlusterFs is similar to the AWS EFS solution for On-Prem cloud users. You can leverage its geo-replication feature to store your data to remote locations. **What problems is GlusterFS solving and how is that benefiting you?** Distributing release files to geographically distributed data centers. ### 7. Glusterfs experience **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Alwyn V. | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 23, 2020 **What do you like best about GlusterFS?** I used glusterfs on laravel to load balance my storage. It absolutely served my purpose and was simple to setup. **What do you dislike about GlusterFS?** With laravel it was a little complex to implement **What problems is GlusterFS solving and how is that benefiting you?** I used glusterfs on laravel to load balance my storage. It absolutely served my purpose and was simple to setup. ### 8. GlusterFS was a lifesaver for my project. **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 22, 2020 **What do you like best about GlusterFS?** GFS is very straightforward to setup. I liked it because this was stable. **What do you dislike about GlusterFS?** I have nothing to say here because I was having issues with my other distributed filesystem and I used GFS as an alternative and it really saved my project from failing. So I really liked it. **What problems is GlusterFS solving and how is that benefiting you?** Well the problems I was facing with my previous distributed filesystem was that it was taking too much time for synchronizing data across multiple disks and hence resulting into issues during a disaster recovery scenario. I solved this problem by using GFS instead. ### 9. Resilient and Reliable distributed software defined storage **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Prabha M. | Cloud Solutions - Pre sales, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 02, 2020 **What do you like best about GlusterFS?** Great level of Fault tolerance, Gluster Storage is relatively easy to deploy and configure, **What do you dislike about GlusterFS?** not easy to manage,one must pay attention and test the solution for required workloads. **What problems is GlusterFS solving and how is that benefiting you?** hardware server cost is greatly minimized ### 10. Definitely a fan, but performance seems lacking **Rating:** 2.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Aron S. | DevOps Engineer, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 29, 2019 **What do you like best about GlusterFS?** GlusterFS is relatively easy to configure and also lends itself pretty well to automation, for example via ansible. The documentation is mostly clear, at least on the conceptual level, and it comes through clearly that there is a powerful set of enterprise features behind it, especially for people with lower budgets. **What do you dislike about GlusterFS?** At times the documentation feels inconsistent. Also, my use case where I PoC-ed GlusterFS was for something where there were many millions of small files. For this, it did not perform very well. **Recommendations to others considering GlusterFS:** Definitely test performance for use cases such as few large files vs many small ones. Make sure to use automation and orchestration if you want to scale out, but even for as few as 3 nodes it is worth it. **What problems is GlusterFS solving and how is that benefiting you?** On a base level, I think Gluster works well for small installs of 3 nodes, and replication is consistent, HA is achieved, but I have not succeeded in solving a larger scale-out problem of many files and many terabytes of storage used. ### 11. The system administrator who manage this system for more than three years. **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Viktor K. | System Administrator, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 14, 2019 **What do you like best about GlusterFS?** - GlusterFS is a free and friendly user distributed file system. - Works on top of the main file system. - Easy to increase or decrease the number of bricks. - GlusterFS supports 5 types of distribution of content combined in volume. - Possibility of use GlusterFS in the Proxmox system. - GlusterFS performs well on local networks. **What do you dislike about GlusterFS?** - The write speed is normal, but the read speed is low. - The process of replacing a brick is quite long. There is also a drawdown reading and writing from the source. **Recommendations to others considering GlusterFS:** Basically Glusterfs is a great open-source system that can help you with creating a backup system. Maybe later the system will be faster and all the questions will be a thing of the past. **What problems is GlusterFS solving and how is that benefiting you?** Created a backup system in Proxmox virtualization, all virtual machines make backups on GlusterFS servers. ### 12. high availability and easy to use. The disk concept is also very efficient. **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Warehousing | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 02, 2020 **What do you like best about GlusterFS?** That glusterd service running on all nodes to sync the data between the all nodes. **What do you dislike about GlusterFS?** The io performance issue for work loads with large number of small files. **Recommendations to others considering GlusterFS:** It’s easy to use and setup and it’s high availability feature is also improved. **What problems is GlusterFS solving and how is that benefiting you?** Improved High availability features specially for online websites. Less complicated while setup. ### 13. Worked very efficiently **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Hospitality | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 16, 2020 **What do you like best about GlusterFS?** I like its high availability feature as how. Efficiently the data . Its scalable and distributed file system . **What do you dislike about GlusterFS?** Its performance issue while writing data on different nodes. **What problems is GlusterFS solving and how is that benefiting you?** It has a great features including high availability and efficiently storage properties. ### 14. Free and open source what do you need more **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Hospitality | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 18, 2020 **What do you like best about GlusterFS?** You can use any hardware to put a linux distro and install, very fast and reliable. **What do you dislike about GlusterFS?** Upgrade is a mess for major versions, especially when there are lots of breaking changes. **Recommendations to others considering GlusterFS:** Watchout when upgrading **What problems is GlusterFS solving and how is that benefiting you?** Using for a distributed Hybris application as shared folder ### 15. GlusterFS is a great way to create large scalable storage pools on commodity hardware. **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 18, 2020 **What do you like best about GlusterFS?** Use of commodity hardware, scalability, stability. **What do you dislike about GlusterFS?** Earlier versions had some strange issues but everything seems great now. **What problems is GlusterFS solving and how is that benefiting you?** Large distributed storage pools on commodity hardware easily scaled with our configuration management and hardware provisioning system. ### 16. One of Best in open source of storage **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 25, 2020 **What do you like best about GlusterFS?** Easily provisions and integration with Kubernetes **What do you dislike about GlusterFS?** Does not provide redundancy, but other then this product is good. **Recommendations to others considering GlusterFS:** Good to use, and it's product **What problems is GlusterFS solving and how is that benefiting you?** Nfs mounting to Kubernetes ### 17. I become a red hat glusterfs certified **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Internet | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 17, 2020 **What do you like best about GlusterFS?** Geo location is helpful for me And also dist-replica. **What do you dislike about GlusterFS?** Glusterfs should support for block storage and object Storage **What problems is GlusterFS solving and how is that benefiting you?** I faced problem with nfs tls. When i disabled tls than solved ### 18. The perfect solution to provide a shared and high available storage solution **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Aitor A. | Mr, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 18, 2019 **What do you like best about GlusterFS?** The best about this service is that you can build a shared storage solution without invest to mucho money, time and efforts and you will have high valuable benefits like: - High availability - Read/write balance - Data striping - Fault tolerant Additional, just to say that works within several Linux distros like Centos, Debian, Ubuntu... (although Red Hat is the owner). **What do you dislike about GlusterFS?** There is not anything specially disgusting about this service because the installation and up & running process is easy and fast. Maybe, to understand how it works or what is the best configuration for your project/infrastructure could be the process which take more time. **Recommendations to others considering GlusterFS:** A good choice if are you looking for a solution whith the requirements already mentioned. **What problems is GlusterFS solving and how is that benefiting you?** Problem solved: - High available shared storage system in a LAMP/LEMP infrastructure. Benefits: - Low investment, as time as effort and money - Low support level needed ### 19. Used it to reliably move big files **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Consumer Goods | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 08, 2019 **What do you like best about GlusterFS?** I liked the easiness of setup compared to solutions like CEPH, high reliability. GlusterFS really plugged in nicely in existing stack without any complications. **What do you dislike about GlusterFS?** Performance with small files, if you got like billions of small files - that's probably not the best way to do it, but other solutions are also suffering with them. **Recommendations to others considering GlusterFS:** Use it for big files, it's great **What problems is GlusterFS solving and how is that benefiting you?** Moving video data for advertising platform. Best thing about it - it's easily observable system. ### 20. GlusterFS using Kubernetes as a persistent storage source. **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Education Management | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 04, 2019 **What do you like best about GlusterFS?** The HA that GlusterFS provides is useful for ensuring that persistent storage is always available for stateful application running on Kubernetes. Ease of failover makes the user oblivious to changes to the storage source, making administration easier. **What do you dislike about GlusterFS?** The complication in configuration and maintenance is a bit much for non technical users - this is where using a native NFS solution sounds better. **What problems is GlusterFS solving and how is that benefiting you?** The high availability nature of storage that is difficult to solve with traditional NFS. ### 21. The best solution for H/A storage. **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Alexandru B. | Staff DevOps Engineer, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 04, 2019 **What do you like best about GlusterFS?** High Availability. Fault-tolerant. Stability. Great documentation. **What do you dislike about GlusterFS?** Good performance across a wide variety of storage needs. Too good to be disliked! **Recommendations to others considering GlusterFS:** GlusterFS it's really simple and fast. **What problems is GlusterFS solving and how is that benefiting you?** It helps me scale out the system storage and increase the performance. ### 22. Fast&Stable **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Sergei N. | Linux System Administrator at Stefanini EMEA, Information Technology and Services, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 30, 2019 **What do you like best about GlusterFS?** Speed and stability. Easy to maintain. Good manual. **What do you dislike about GlusterFS?** Doesn't work on different Linux distributuves in one cluster as expected. Ubuntu + Ubuntu - OK Ubuntu + CentOS - NOK **Recommendations to others considering GlusterFS:** Be patient. **What problems is GlusterFS solving and how is that benefiting you?** DB files are in safe now. ### 23. Easy to use distributed file system on commodity hardware **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Brian B. | Implementation Engineer, Computer Software, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 31, 2019 **What do you like best about GlusterFS?** Easy to setup, works on cheap hardware. **What do you dislike about GlusterFS?** Nothing! Had no issues, everything was great. **What problems is GlusterFS solving and how is that benefiting you?** Backing up petabytes of data from thousands of servers without expensive SAN hardware. ### 24. GlusterFS **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Pharmaceuticals | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 03, 2019 **What do you like best about GlusterFS?** It is a reliable distributed filesystem for high availability scenarios. It does this well. O er low latencies. **What do you dislike about GlusterFS?** It sometimes in my experience uses a high amount of memory. **Recommendations to others considering GlusterFS:** Look over GlusterFS and Ceph. Sometimes block storage is a good way to go depending on usage. **What problems is GlusterFS solving and how is that benefiting you?** Highly availability always on filesystem. ### 25. Stable and production-ready **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Banking | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 05, 2019 **What do you like best about GlusterFS?** Ease of management and configuration and performance are the two things that really made us to use it. **What do you dislike about GlusterFS?** Troubleshooting performance issues is hard **Recommendations to others considering GlusterFS:** Run in in Docker containers **What problems is GlusterFS solving and how is that benefiting you?** Shared storage for containers ### 26. GluterFS is not without merits, but I just cannot recommmend it for Production use. **Rating:** 2.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Financial Services | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 18, 2018 **What do you like best about GlusterFS?** It performs surprisingly well (when it's working). It's also able to scale considerably (horizontal as well as vertical). At best, it's transparent to the applications that depend on it. **What do you dislike about GlusterFS?** The auto-heal isn't reliable and the process to manually intervene is painful, not exact, and does not scale. Performance suffers when the volumes aren't at 100% health. If underlying I/O isn't consistent the volume can wobble. Community support isn't all that impressive. I will NOT choose GlusterFS for my next deployment. **Recommendations to others considering GlusterFS:** I would seriously consider other options, like Ceph, or the commercially supported version Red Had Storage (I think that's what it's called). Or if possible, avoid the need for a shared filesystem altogether! **What problems is GlusterFS solving and how is that benefiting you?** Shared filesystems with POSIX compliance. Avoiding the requirement to have multi-writer .VMDKs in VMware. ### 27. One of the easiest to use distributed filesystems **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** David A. | Software Engineer, International Affairs, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 25, 2017 **What do you like best about GlusterFS?** It is very easy to manage, has a simple cli and almost no maintenance. It also runs on commodity hardware, enterprise servers and cloud (VPS) with no issues. This was the solution we adopted to distribute data in a virtual datacenter some time ago and we faced no issues. **What do you dislike about GlusterFS?** It uses a quorum mechanism to decide what data is up-to-date and what node wins when "writing". This has it's pros and cons. On the upside, it simplifies the process to manage the cluster of servers in the system: you add servers as you go. On the down side, you need to provision a minimum of 3 servers and a good link between them: if you access a file that's not in the node it has to contact the node that has the actual data (as a proxy) while the data is replicated on the node. **What problems is GlusterFS solving and how is that benefiting you?** Data replication at file level. In a world where websites and backends have to share a common state a number of different technologies have spread. GlusterFS solves the shared state at the filesystem level, and does the easy way. ## GlusterFS Discussions - [What is GlusterFS used for?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/what-is-glusterfs-used-for) - [What is brick GlusterFS?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/what-is-brick-glusterfs) - [How does GlusterFS replication work?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/how-does-glusterfs-replication-work) - [What is Linux gluster?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/what-is-linux-gluster) - [How it will help state full workloads in Kubernetes](https://www.g2.com/discussions/28772-how-it-will-help-state-full-workloads-in-kubernetes) - 1 upvote - [View GlusterFS pricing details and edition comparison](https://www.g2.com/products/glusterfs/reviews?section=pricing&secure%5Bexpires_at%5D=2026-06-15+14%3A51%3A53+-0500&secure%5Bsession_id%5D=1651139f-fc3f-4b4f-bea5-da6e30720847&secure%5Btoken%5D=aedc273418c5d99424e9382bd185d2cce381d04fcfe1bfb3d73d1c70f85a4d65&format=llm_user) ## Top GlusterFS Alternatives - [IBM Storage Ceph](https://www.g2.com/products/ibm-storage-ceph/reviews) - 4.1/5.0 (21 reviews) - [Apache Karaf](https://www.g2.com/products/apache-karaf/reviews) - 4.2/5.0 (24 reviews) - [Diego](https://www.g2.com/products/diego/reviews) - 4.3/5.0 (3 reviews)