Hello Eneko;
Firstly, thanks for your comments!
You mentioned that 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.
But what if I want to CEPH cluster to serve a whole range of clients in the data center, ranging from ESXi, Microsoft Hypervisors, Solaris (unvirtualized), AIX (unvirtualized) etc ...
In particular, I'm being asked to create a NAS and iSCSI Block storage farm with an ability to serve not just Linux but a range of operating system(s), some virtualized, some not . ...
I love the distributive nature of CEPH but using Proxy nodes (or heads) sort of goes against the distributive concept...
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Steven Sim
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On 30 December 2014 at 18:55, Eneko Lacunza <elacunza@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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.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.
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?
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
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