[Openstack] A Step-by-Step Guide to Deploying OpenStack on CentOS Using the KVM Hypervisor and GlusterFS Distributed File System

Anton Beloglazov anton.beloglazov at gmail.com
Fri Aug 17 11:49:12 UTC 2012


Thanks for the suggestions, David! I'll read about sysbench and will see
what I can do.

Best regards,
Anton

On Fri, Aug 17, 2012 at 7:08 PM, David Busby <d.busby at saiweb.co.uk> wrote:

> Hi Anton,
>
> For a strait gluster vs native; sysbench (
> http://sysbench.sourceforge.net/docs/#fileio_mode also available from
> epel for el6 http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/buildinfo?buildID=262308)
>  may be able to show some insight into guest I/O performance; over an
> extended period of time.
>
> Potentially you could then look at concurrency by running sysbench on
> multiple guests to gauge degradation of performance due to concurrent I/O
> across nodes (if any exists), here I'd be particularly curious if high I/O
> on one compute node, due to replication caused a performance "hit" on
> another node.
>
> Regards
>
> David
>
>
>
> On Fri, Aug 17, 2012 at 9:45 AM, Anton Beloglazov <
> anton.beloglazov at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi David,
>>
>> I haven't had a chance to run any performance tests yet. What kind of
>> tests would you suggest?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Anton
>>
>>
>> On Fri, Aug 17, 2012 at 6:40 PM, David Busby <d.busby at saiweb.co.uk>wrote:
>>
>>> Hi Anton,
>>>
>>> Thanks for this, having a quick read through it looks great.
>>>
>>> I'd be interested to know what sort of performance you see with gluster
>>> providing a replicated file system, have you been able to do some high I/O
>>> "burn in" tests on guests?
>>>
>>> Thanks
>>>
>>> David
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Fri, Aug 17, 2012 at 9:16 AM, Anton Beloglazov <
>>> anton.beloglazov at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hi All,
>>>>
>>>> I and other people from the CLOUDS lab (http://www.cloudbus.org/) have
>>>> just completed writing a step-by-step guide to deploying OpenStack on
>>>> multiple nodes with CentOS 6.3 using KVM and GlusterFS based on our
>>>> experience. Each step is implemented as a separate shell script, which
>>>> allows going slowly to understand every installation step. I thought it
>>>> might be useful for some people; therefore, I'm announcing it in this
>>>> mailing list.
>>>>
>>>> The guide is available as a PDF:
>>>> https://github.com/beloglazov/openstack-centos-kvm-glusterfs/raw/master/doc/openstack-centos-kvm-glusterfs-guide.pdf
>>>>
>>>> All the shell scripts are on github:
>>>> https://github.com/beloglazov/openstack-centos-kvm-glusterfs
>>>>
>>>> Best regards,
>>>> Anton Beloglazov
>>>>
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