Ah, I see, you were talking about Gluster (the company) rather than GlusterFS (the project). Got it. Yeah, some of the stuff about Red Hat Storage and commercial support and "recommended configurations" is not my cup of tea either, and I'm on the GlusterFS development team at Red Hat. The upstream community project has a lot of potential that can be hard to reconcile with a cautious "what can we support with minimal training" mindset.