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

[Nathan Stratton]

Thanks, I will take a look at it, anyone else currently using Gluster for
backend images in production?


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nathan stratton | vp technology | broadsoft, inc | +1-240-404-6580 |
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On Mon, Jun 9, 2014 at 2:55 PM, Itamar Heim <iheim at redhat.com> wrote:

> 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.
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