Re: [ovirt-users] Why rbd support is not natively available just like glusterFS?
On Mon, Nov 2, 2015 at 10:57 AM, Gaetan SLONGO <gslongo(a)it-optics.com> wrote:
Dear oVirt users,
We are currently looking for a virtualization solution and oVirt seems to be a good
choice for us.
The problem is we have to deploy it on the top of a Ceph/RBD storage.
Maybe I missed something but it seems Ceph/RBD block devices are not available in oVirt,
just like GlusterFS. However Qemu supports it as a native storage backend. Could you
explain why it is not available ?
Because we chose to consume ceph storage via cinder. This will make it
easier to use other
storage backends supported by Cinder in the future.
We saw Ceph storage could be usable through OpenStack Cinder in the
3.6 version but we don't want/need to deploy an OpenStack infrastructure (and we
don't found complete documentation about that).
Yes, you need to deploy Cinder to use ceph storage.
What documentation is missing?
Nir