On Fri, May 10, 2013 at 12:12:45AM +0100, Neil Levine wrote: > Leen, > > Do you mean you get LIO working with RBD directly? Or are you just > re-exporting a kernel mounted volume? > Yes, re-exporting a kernel mounted volume on seperate gateway machines. > 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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