[Users] Ceph / rbd and ovirt

[Itamar Heim]

On 09/23/2012 05:33 PM, Josh Logan wrote:
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> On Sun, Sep 23, 2012 at 6:10 AM, Itamar Heim <iheim at redhat.com
> <mailto:iheim at redhat.com>> wrote:
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>     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.