The death of the SAN: Distributed storage via Gluster, Sheepdog and Ceph

The death of SAN: Opensource distributed file systems are the future of virtualization storage. Rob Terhaar from Atlantic Dynamic will be presenting his research and demos of 3 next-gen open source file systems: Gluster, Sheepdog, and Ceph.

This is a rapidily developing area as Gluster
https://www.gluster.or... (https://www.gluster.org/)
is supported in Debian and
Ceph/BtrFS support is the 2.6.34 kernel.
https://ceph.newdream.... (https://ceph.newdream.net/wiki/Main_Page)

Sheepdog is specifically targeted for
distributed FS support for KVM .
https://www.osrg.net/s... (https://www.osrg.net/sheepdog/)

Possible Isilon "scalable SAN storage" live presentation after, stay tuned...