Re: Help with Integrating Ceph with various Cloud Storage

[Karan Singh <karan.singh@xxxxxx>]

Hello Manoj

My answers to your queries.

# For testing purpose you can install Ceph on virtual machines ( multiple instances of virtual box for multiple mon, osd ). Its good to practice Ceph with multiple MON and OSD.

# For real data storage , please use physical servers , virtual servers are good to go only for testing and learning purpose.

# S3,azure blob,swift are object storage which are different from each other , similarly Ceph also supports object storage and you can access Ceph object storage with S3 and Swift protocols. You cannot use Ceph storage with amazon,azure but you can use ceph with Swift and s3 API.

# I am not much familiar with cloud storage , but based on the experience of openstack , libvirt should be installed from cloudstack servers only , Ceph servers should only do storage for you.

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On 17 Dec 2014, at 09:57, Manoj Singh <respond2manoj@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Hi All,

I am new to Ceph. Due to physical machines shortage I have installed Ceph cluster with single OSD and MON in a single Virtual Machine.  

I have few queries as below:

1.  Whether having the Ceph setup on a VM is fine or it require to be on Physical server.

2. Since Amazon S3, Azure Blob Storage, Swift are Object based Storage, what is the feasibility of attaching these Cloud Storage to Ceph and to be able to allocate disc space from the same while creating new VM from local CloudStack or OpenStack

3. When I am integrating CloudStack with Ceph whether libvert should be installed on the CloudStack management server or on Ceph server. From diagram given in Ceph documentation it's bit confusing.

Thank you in advance. your help shall be really appreciated.

Best Regards,

Manoj Kumar

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