Jared, As Weiguo says you will need to use a gateway to present a Ceph block device (RBD) in a format VMware understands. We've contributed the relevant code to the TGT iSCSI target (see blog: http://ceph.com/dev-notes/adding-support-for-rbd-to-stgt/) and though we haven't done a massive amount of testing on it, I'd love to get some feedback on it. We will be putting more effort into it this cycle (including producing a package). If you have a VMware account rep, be sure to ask him to file support for Ceph as a customer request with the product teams while we continue knock on VMware's door :-) Neil On Thu, May 9, 2013 at 11:30 PM, w sun <wsun2@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > RBD is not supported by VMware/vSphere. You will need to build a > NFS/iSCSI/FC GW to support VMware. Here is a post someone has been trying > and you may have to contact them directly for status, > > http://ceph.com/community/ceph-over-fibre-for-vmware/ > > --weiguo > > ________________________________ > To: ceph-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx > From: JaredDavis@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > Date: Thu, 9 May 2013 17:25:02 -0500 > Subject: Using Ceph as Storage for VMware > > > I am investigating using Ceph as a storage target for virtual servers in > VMware. We have 3 servers packed with hard drives ready for the proof of > concept. I am looking for some direction. Is this a valid use for Ceph? > If so, has anybody accomplished this? Are there any documents on how to set > this up? Should I use RDB, NFS, etc? Any help, would be greatly > appreciated. > > > Thank You, > > JD > > > _______________________________________________ ceph-users mailing list > ceph-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx > http://lists.ceph.com/listinfo.cgi/ceph-users-ceph.com > > _______________________________________________ > ceph-users mailing list > ceph-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx > http://lists.ceph.com/listinfo.cgi/ceph-users-ceph.com > _______________________________________________ ceph-users mailing list ceph-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.ceph.com/listinfo.cgi/ceph-users-ceph.com
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