I'm working on something very similar at the moment to present RBD's to ESXi Hosts. I'm going to run 2 or 3 VM's on the local ESXi storage to act as iSCSI "proxy" nodes. They will run a pacemaker HA setup with the RBD and LIO iSCSI resource agents to provide a failover iSCSI target which maps back to the RBD's from CEPH. I decided against running them on the monitor nodes in case any of the HA goodness like fencing starting going haywire and started randomly rebooting the monitors. -----Original Message----- From: ceph-users [mailto:ceph-users-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Eneko Lacunza Sent: 30 December 2014 10:56 To: ceph-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: Re: Block and NAS Services for Non Linux OS Hi Steven, Welcome to the list. On 30/12/14 11:47, Steven Sim wrote: > This is my first posting and I apologize if the content or query is > not appropriate. > > My understanding for CEPH is the block and NAS services are through > specialized (albeit opensource) kernel modules for Linux. > > What about the other OS e.g. Solaris, AIX, Windows, ESX ... > > If the solution is to use a proxy, would using the MON servers (as > iSCSI and NAS proxies) be okay? Virtual machines see a QEMU IDE/SCSI disk, they don't know whether its on ceph, NFS, local, LVM, ... so it works OK for any VM guest SO. Currently on Proxmox, it's qemu-kvm the ceph (RBD) client, not the linux kernel. > > What about performance? It depends a lot on the setup. Do you have something on your mind? :) Cheers Eneko -- Zuzendari Teknikoa / Director Técnico Binovo IT Human Project, S.L. Telf. 943575997 943493611 Astigarraga bidea 2, planta 6 dcha., ofi. 3-2; 20180 Oiartzun (Gipuzkoa) www.binovo.es _______________________________________________ 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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