Hi Steven, Until the RBD/FS drivers are developed for those particular OS’s you are forced to use a Linux server to “proxy” the storage into another format which those OS’s can understand. However if you take a look on the Dev mailing list, somebody has just posted a link to a Windows CephFS driver, with the potential for there to be a Windows RBD driver sometime in the future. I believe the ESXi Driver API’s are available, so who knows, somebody may develop a native ESXi driver in the future too. But in the meantime if you are worried about scale, you can always make use of multiple proxy nodes to spread the load across more hardware. Nick From: ceph-users [mailto:ceph-users-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Steven Sim 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... Warmest Regards On 30 December 2014 at 18:55, Eneko Lacunza <elacunza@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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