Re: [Users] Ceph RBD

From: "Alex T" <atb990(a)gmail.com&gt; To: users(a)ovirt.org Sent: Thursday, May 30, 2013 11:06:25 PM Subject: [Users] Ceph RBD Just wondering if there is any possibility of adding support for Ceph's RBD, I understand there are means of simply mounting an RBD with glusterfs, but for performance and simplicity adding support for creating and adding RBD's to VM's would be nice... from my experience on ubuntu 12.04 Qemu 1.4.2 is a strong recommendation. I just don't want to switch to opennebula (although probably the easiest transition from ovirt) or proxmox, kind of getting hooked on the ovirt, but it's lack of support for ceph maybe for it's direct competition with gluster is imposing on its adoption... Just some other thoughts for the developer's who seem to be few and far between (or at least according to bugzilla), providing support for debian/arch/gentoo (although they already have a little community going), I think would get alot more involvement.. Also getting the website fixed up should be asap, I mean, it is very hard to navigate, broken links, dead pages, there are tons of pages that are outdated, some that are up to date but are very difficult to navigate too... I mean you can really just copy and paste the RHEV admin manual and call it the ovirt manual, and get alot more interest, if you try and go to the ovirt admin manual now its just a dead page.... There are from what I remember 1800+ bugs and it seems that only a few developer's are actively working on them, I think that creating some better video's, with better audio showing just how simple it is to create a storage domain, create gluster volumes, iscsi domains etc.. would greatly enhance support, because lets face it, ovirt makes managing your infrastructure easy and intuitive... the more user's the bigger the community the faster the development, please port all the documentation possible from RH to Ovirt and fix up all the broken and dead links on the website so people don't think that Ovirt is a dead project, advertise all the supporter's intel, ibm, netapp whoever... if you get support in for Ceph, you beat out Citrix Vmware, Microsoft, Oracle all in one punch, everyone is looking at Ceph, ovirt is the replacement for microsofts virtual machine manager which requires a ton of things to get functional and the fact that hyper-v is a piece of crap, citrix xenserver at this level would cost around $5K per server with xendesktop and their cloud portal or whatever it's called would be over 10-20K+, VMware would be around 40-50K depending how many server's but just the storage domain option I believe is 35K, oracle I think is a little cheaper at about 3.5K per server, but not so many features... I mean ovirt has so much to offer, just need to get the word out there! I also think getting openvswitch implemented would also be a great addition to both security and functionality. Anyways, great job so far guy's, thank you very much for this software, _______________________________________________ Users mailing list Users(a)ovirt.org http://lists.ovirt.org/mailman/listinfo/users