NFS over CEPH - best practice

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On Thu, May 08, 2014 at 01:24:17AM +0200, Gilles Mocellin wrote:
> Le 07/05/2014 15:23, Vlad Gorbunov a ?crit :
> >It's easy to install tgtd with ceph support. ubuntu 12.04 for example:
> >
> >Connect ceph-extras repo:
> >echo deb http://ceph.com/packages/ceph-extras/debian $(lsb_release
> >-sc) main | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/ceph-extras.list
> >
> >Install tgtd with rbd support:
> >apt-get update
> >apt-get install tgt
> >
> >It's important to disable the rbd cache on tgtd host. Set in
> >/etc/ceph/ceph.conf:
> >[client]
> >rbd_cache = false
> [...]
> 
> Hello,
> 

Hi,

> Without cache on the tgtd side, it should be possible to have
> failover and load balancing (active/avtive) multipathing.
> Have you tested multipath load balancing in this scenario ?
> 
> If it's reliable, it opens a new way for me to do HA storage with iSCSI !
> 

I have a question, what is your use case ?

Do you need SCSI-3 persistent reservations so multiple machines can use the same LUN at the same time ?

Because in that case I think tgtd won't help you.

Have a good day,
	Leen.


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