recommendations for file sharing

Alex Leake <A.M.D.Leake@xxxxxxxxxx> · Tue, 15 Dec 2015 10:45:29 +0000

Good Morning,

I have a production Ceph cluster at the University I work at, which runs brilliantly. 

However, I'd like your advice on the best way of sharing CIFS / SMB from Ceph. So far I have three ideas:

Use a server as a head node, with an RBD mapped, then just export with samba

Use a platform like OpenStack / KVM to host VMs that reside on Ceph RBDs - and use those to export filesystems (similar to 1.)
Use a the S3 functionality of the RADOS gateway in conjunction with tools like SoftNAS (https://www.softnas.com/wp/)
They all seem a little inefficient though, especially the 2nd option.

Any help would be welcomed, I think it's an interesting problem.

Kind Regards,

Alex.

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