[Users] Ceph RBD

[Alex T]

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outdated, some that are up to date but are very difficult to navigate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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