[Users] Ceph RBD

[Tim Hildred]

Hey Alex,

Some of the RHEV docs team are going to spend next Tuesday working on tidying up the oVirt wiki, paying attention especially to the documentation. You should feel free to join us, we'll appreciate specific input you can give. 

If you had a list of stuff you thought needed particular attention, please feel free to contact me off list.

Thanks Alex.

Tim Hildred, RHCE, RHCVA
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----- Original Message -----
> From: "Alex T" <atb990 at gmail.com>
> To: users at 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 outdated, some that are up to date but are very difficult to navigate too...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,
> 
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