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From: Leo David <leoalex(a)gmail.com>
Date: Sun, May 27, 2018, 20:01
Subject: Re: [ovirt-users] External ceph storage
To: Luca 'remix_tj' Lorenzetto <lorenzetto.luca(a)gmail.com>
Indeed, you right. Will setup the gws while waiting for a maybe future
native ceph connection, which in my oppinion would bring a lot of power to
oVirt.
On Sun, May 27, 2018, 19:48 Luca 'remix_tj' Lorenzetto <
lorenzetto.luca(a)gmail.com> wrote:
I think is the best option. Setting up a sma openstack setup only for
it
is not worth the hassle.
Luca
Il dom 27 mag 2018, 18:44 Leo David <leoalex(a)gmail.com> ha scritto:
> Ok, so since i dont have openstack installed (which would put cinder
> between ceph and ovirt ), the only option remains the iscsi gw...
> Thank you very much !
>
> On Sun, May 27, 2018, 18:14 Luca 'remix_tj' Lorenzetto <
> lorenzetto.luca(a)gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> No,
>>
>> The only way you have is to configure cinder to manage ceph pool or in
>> alternative you have to deploy an iscsi gateway, no other ways are
>> available at the moment.
>>
>> So you can't use rbd directly.
>>
>> Luca
>>
>> Il dom 27 mag 2018, 16:54 Leo David <leoalex(a)gmail.com> ha scritto:
>>
>>> Thank you Luca,
>>> At the moment i would try the cinder storage provider, since we already
>>> have a proxmox cluster directly connecting to ceph. The problem is that I
>>> just could not find a straight way to do this.
>>> ie: Specify the ceph monitors and ceph pool to connect to. Can oVirt
>>> directly connect to ceph monitors ? How the configuration should be done if
>>> so ?
>>> Thank you very much !
>>>
>>>
>>> On Sun, May 27, 2018, 17:20 Luca 'remix_tj' Lorenzetto <
>>> lorenzetto.luca(a)gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hello,
>>>>
>>>> Yes, using cinder or through iscsi gateway.
>>>>
>>>> For a simpler setup i suggest the second option.
>>>>
>>>> Luca
>>>>
>>>> Il dom 27 mag 2018, 16:08 Leo David <leoalex(a)gmail.com> ha
scritto:
>>>>
>>>>> Hello everyone,
>>>>> I am new to ovirt and very impressed of its features. I would like
to
>>>>> levereage on our existing ceph cluster to provide rbd images for vm
hdds,
>>>>> is this possible to achieve ?
>>>>> Thank you very much !
>>>>> Regards,
>>>>> Leo
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