Leen, Do you mean you get LIO working with RBD directly? Or are you just re-exporting a kernel mounted volume? Neil On Thu, May 9, 2013 at 11:58 PM, Leen Besselink <leen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Thu, May 09, 2013 at 11:51:32PM +0100, Neil Levine wrote: >> 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). >> > > We also have a legacy virtualization setup we are thinking of using with Ceph > and iSCSI. We however also ended up at LIO, because LIO supports the iSCSI > extensions which are needed for clustering. > > stgt doesn't yet support all the needed extensions as far as I can see. > > There seems to be exactly one person sporadically working on improving stgt > in this area. > >> 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 > _______________________________________________ > 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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