On 09/22/2012 08:58 AM, Josh Logan wrote: > > I'm currently setting up an ovirt cluster and so far it looks good. I > like the integration with Foreman http://theforeman.org/ . > > I would like to use Ceph / rbd for my storage. I saw some mention of > patches coming in May, but I did not find any new posts. > > What is the status of this work? Is there some patches I can try out? > I have a working Ceph cluster and a working ovirt cluster, I just need a > way to bring them together. > > Thanks, JOSH > > > I don't remember any active work on this right now (for sure nothing like the gluster integration being done). but iiuc, ceph provides posixfs support - did you try creating a posixfs based storage domain? (you would need a "full" host (not ovirt-node) to install ceph client components on). Thanks, Itamar

On 09/23/2012 05:33 PM, Josh Logan wrote: > > On Sun, Sep 23, 2012 at 6:10 AM, Itamar Heim <iheim(a)redhat.com > <mailto:iheim@redhat.com>> wrote: > > On 09/22/2012 08:58 AM, Josh Logan wrote: > > > I'm currently setting up an ovirt cluster and so far it looks > good. I > like the integration with Foreman http://theforeman.org/ . > > I would like to use Ceph / rbd for my storage. I saw some > mention of > patches coming in May, but I did not find any new posts. > > What is the status of this work? Is there some patches I can > try out? > I have a working Ceph cluster and a working ovirt cluster, I > just need a > way to bring them together. > > Thanks, JOSH > > > > I don't remember any active work on this right now (for sure nothing > like the gluster integration being done). > but iiuc, ceph provides posixfs support - did you try creating a > posixfs based storage domain? > (you would need a "full" host (not ovirt-node) to install ceph > client components on). > > Thanks, > Itamar > > > > I am doing my work on Fedora 17 hosts, not ovirt-node, since I know this > will need more OS support. > > There are a few different Ceph filesystems. But the posix based one is > the least ready for production. The rbd filesystem is integrated into > qemu and libvirt is the most suited for VM images. > > Are the Gluster patches available? I would like to see what that > feature looks like and if I can modify them for Ceph. > If there is a better filesystem to investigate please let me know. > > Thanks, JOSH > > gluster as a native storage domain (rather than posixfs) is still in reviews (and has patches only for vdsm side). http://gerrit.ovirt.org/#/c/**6856/ <http://gerrit.ovirt.org/#/c/6856/> you can also use NFS in the meantime if relevant for ceph.

Hi Josh, ----- Original Message ----- > > > > On Sun, Sep 23, 2012 at 8:41 AM, Itamar Heim < iheim(a)redhat.com > > wrote: > > > > On 09/23/2012 05:33 PM, Josh Logan wrote: > > > > > On Sun, Sep 23, 2012 at 6:10 AM, Itamar Heim < iheim(a)redhat.com > > > <mailto: iheim(a)redhat.com >> wrote: > > On 09/22/2012 08:58 AM, Josh Logan wrote: > > > I'm currently setting up an ovirt cluster and so far it looks > good. I > like the integration with Foreman http://theforeman.org/ . > > I would like to use Ceph / rbd for my storage. I saw some > mention of > patches coming in May, but I did not find any new posts. > > What is the status of this work? Is there some patches I can > try out? > I have a working Ceph cluster and a working ovirt cluster, I > just need a > way to bring them together. > > Thanks, JOSH > > > > I don't remember any active work on this right now (for sure nothing > like the gluster integration being done). > but iiuc, ceph provides posixfs support - did you try creating a > posixfs based storage domain? > (you would need a "full" host (not ovirt-node) to install ceph > client components on). > > Thanks, > Itamar > > > > I am doing my work on Fedora 17 hosts, not ovirt-node, since I know > this > will need more OS support. > > There are a few different Ceph filesystems. But the posix based one > is > the least ready for production. The rbd filesystem is integrated into > qemu and libvirt is the most suited for VM images. > > Are the Gluster patches available? I would like to see what that > feature looks like and if I can modify them for Ceph. > If there is a better filesystem to investigate please let me know. > > Thanks, JOSH > > > gluster as a native storage domain (rather than posixfs) is still in > reviews (and has patches only for vdsm side). > http://gerrit.ovirt.org/#/c/ 6856/ > > you can also use NFS in the meantime if relevant for ceph. > > > > Thanks for the pointer. I'll follow that and see what I learn. > > The vdsm side may be similar since both are network disk device. > There are only 2 steps needed to start up a VM with rbd. > > qemu-img create -f rbd rbd:data/host1 10G > > Then to start the image for qemu add -drive > file=rbd:data/host1,if=none,id=drive-virtio-disk0,format=raw > > or within libvirt: > <disk type='network' device='disk'> > <driver name='qemu' type='raw'/> > <source protocol='rbd' name='data/host1'/> > <target dev='vda' bus='virtio'/> > <address type='pci' domain='0x0000' bus='0x00' slot='0x05' > function='0x0'/> > </disk> > > So the steps are simple, and maybe Gluster is more complex then I > should use as an example. Have you followed up on this? Do you need more pointers? Regards, Ayal. > > Thanks, JOSH > > _______________________________________________ > Users mailing list > Users(a)ovirt.org > http://lists.ovirt.org/mailman/listinfo/users >