3.2. Feature Compatibility Support
Red Hat Gluster Storage supports a number of features. Most features are supported with other features, but there are some exceptions. This section clearly identifies which features are supported and compatible with other features to help you in planning your Red Hat Gluster Storage deployment.
Note
Internet Protocol Version 6 (IPv6) support is available only for Red Hat Hyperconverged Infrastructure for Virtualization environments and not for Red Hat Gluster Storage standalone environments.
Features in the following table are supported from the specified version and later.
| Feature | Version |
|---|---|
| Arbiter bricks | 3.2 |
| Bitrot detection | 3.1 |
| Erasure coding | 3.1 |
| Google Compute Engine | 3.1.3 |
| Metadata caching | 3.2 |
| Microsoft Azure | 3.1.3 |
| NFS version 4 | 3.1 |
| SELinux | 3.1 |
| Sharding | 3.2.0 |
| Snapshots | 3.0 |
| Snapshots, cloning | 3.1.3 |
| Snapshots, user-serviceable | 3.0.3 |
| Tiering (Deprecated) | 3.1.2 |
| Volume Shadow Copy (VSS) | 3.1.3 |
| Volume Type | Sharding | Tiering (Deprecated) | Quota | Snapshots | Geo-Rep | Bitrot |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Arbitrated-Replicated | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Distributed | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Distributed-Dispersed | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Distributed-Replicated | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Replicated | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Sharded | N/A | No | No | No | Yes | No |
| Tiered (Deprecated) | No | N/A | Limited[a] | Limited[a] | Limited[a] | Limited[a] |
| Feature | FUSE | Gluster-NFS | NFS-Ganesha | SMB |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Arbiter | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Bitrot detection | Yes | Yes | No | Yes |
| dm-cache | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Encryption (TLS-SSL) | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Erasure coding | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Export subdirectory | Yes | Yes | Yes | N/A |
| Geo-replication | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Quota (Deprecated)
Warning
Using QUOTA feature is considered to be deprecated in Red Hat Gluster Storage 3.5.3. Red Hat no longer recommends to use this feature and does not support it on new deployments and existing deployments that upgrade to Red Hat Gluster Storage 3.5.3.
See Chapter 9, Managing Directory Quotas for more details.
| Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| RDMA (Deprecated)
Warning
Using RDMA as a transport protocol is considered deprecated in Red Hat Gluster Storage 3.5. Red Hat no longer recommends its use, and does not support it on new deployments and existing deployments that upgrade to Red Hat Gluster Storage 3.5.3.
| Yes | No | No | No |
| Snapshots | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Snapshot cloning | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Tiering (Deprecated)
Warning
Tiering is considered deprecated as of Red Hat Gluster Storage 3.5. Red Hat no longer recommends its use, and does not support tiering in new deployments and existing deployments that upgrade to Red Hat Gluster Storage 3.5.3.
| Yes | Yes | N/A | N/A |
