Hello, On Thu, 20 Aug 2015 11:55:55 +1000 Jiri Kanicky wrote: > Hi all, > > We are experimenting with an idea to run OSD nodes in XenServer VMs. We > believe this could provide better flexibility, backups for the nodes etc. > > For example: > Xenserver with 4 HDDs dedicated for Ceph. > We would introduce 1 VM (OSD node) with raw/direct access to 4 HDDs or 2 > VMs (2 OSD nodes) with 2 HDDs each. > > Do you have any experience with this? Any thoughts on this? Good or bad > idea? > My knee jerk reaction would be definitely in the "bad idea" category. Even with "raw" access I'd venture that isn't as fast as actual bare-metal and your network will be virtualized anyway. What really puzzles/amuses me though is using the one VM platform that doesn't support Ceph as the basis for providing Ceph. ^o^ Christian -- Christian Balzer Network/Systems Engineer chibi@xxxxxxx Global OnLine Japan/Fusion Communications http://www.gol.com/ _______________________________________________ ceph-users mailing list ceph-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.ceph.com/listinfo.cgi/ceph-users-ceph.com
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