[ovirt-users] Hacking in Ceph rather then Gluster.

[Itamar Heim]

On 06/09/2014 01:28 PM, Nathan Stratton wrote:
> So I understand that the news is still fresh and there may not be much
> going on yet in making Ceph work with ovirt, but I thought I would reach
> out and see if it was possible to hack them together and still use
> librdb rather then NFS.
>
> I know, why not just use Gluster... the problem is I have tried to use
> Gluster for VM storage for years and I still don't think it is ready.
> Ceph still has work in other areas, but this is one area where I think
> it shines. This is a new lab cluster and I would like to try to use ceph
> over gluster if possible.
>
> Unless I am missing something, can anyone tell me they are happy with
> Gluster as a backend image store? This will be a small 16 node 10 gig
> cluster of shared compute / storage (yes I know people want to keep them
> separate).
>
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there was a threat about this recently. afaict, ceph support will 
require adding a specific ceph storage domain to engine and vdsm, which 
is a full blown feature (I assume you could try and hack it somewhat 
with a custom hook). waiting for next version planning cycle to see 
if/how it gets pushed.