No particular reason actually. Just thought it would be simpler. However, iSCSI looks simple enough from the howtos. Thanks for your suggestions and I will give it a shot ----- Original Message ----- From: "Stuart Longland" <stuartl@xxxxxxxxxx> To: ceph-users at lists.ceph.com Sent: Friday, 9 May, 2014 12:26:17 AM Subject: Re: NFS over CEPH - best practice On 07/05/14 19:46, Andrei Mikhailovsky wrote: > Hello guys, > > I would like to offer NFS service to the XenServer and VMWare > hypervisors for storing vm images. I am currently running ceph rbd with > kvm, which is working reasonably well. > > What would be the best way of running NFS services over CEPH, so that > the XenServer and VMWare's vm disk images are stored in ceph storage > over NFS? Any reason why you'd go NFS? VMWare is capable of talking iSCSI to a Ceph node running stgt. http://stuartl.longlandclan.yi.org/blog/2014/02/25/ceph-and-stgt/ Regards, -- Stuart Longland Systems Engineer _ ___ \ /|_) | T: +61 7 3535 9619 \/ | \ | 38b Douglas Street F: +61 7 3535 9699 SYSTEMS Milton QLD 4064 http://www.vrt.com.au _______________________________________________ ceph-users mailing list ceph-users at lists.ceph.com http://lists.ceph.com/listinfo.cgi/ceph-users-ceph.com -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.ceph.com/pipermail/ceph-users-ceph.com/attachments/20140509/f2fcf567/attachment.htm>
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