On 05/20/2010 04:18 PM, Christian Brunner wrote:
Thanks for your comments. I'll send an updated patch in a few days. Having a central storage system is quite essential in larger hosting environments, it enables you to move your guest systems from one node to another easily (live-migration or dynamic restart). Traditionally this has been done using SAN, iSCSI or NFS. However most of these systems don't scale very well and and the costs for high-availability are quite high. With new approaches like Sheepdog or Ceph, things are getting a lot cheaper and you can scale your system without disrupting your service. The concepts are quite similar to what Amazon is doing in their EC2 environment, but they certainly won't publish it as OpenSource anytime soon. Both projects have advantages and disadvantages. Ceph is a bit more universal as it implements a whole filesystem. Sheepdog is more feature complete in regards of managing images (e.g. snapshots). Both projects require some additional work to become stable, but they are on a good way. I would really like to see both drivers in the qemu tree, as they are the key to a design shift in how storage in the datacenter is being built.
I'd be more interested in enabling people to build these types of storage systems without touching qemu.
Both sheepdog and ceph ultimately transmit I/O over a socket to a central daemon, right? So could we not standardize a protocol for this that both sheepdog and ceph could implement?
Regards, Anthony Liguori
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