Re: recommendations for file sharing

[Alex Leake <A.M.D.Leake@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Martin / Wade,

Thanks for the response. I had a feeling that would be the case!

I've been playing around with that approach anyway, glad to know that's the general agreement.

Kind Regards,

Alex.​

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From: Martin Palma <martin@xxxxxxxx>
Sent: 15 December 2015 16:30
To: Wade Holler
Cc: Alex Leake; ceph-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: recommendations for file sharing

 

Currently, we use approach #1 with kerberized NFSv4 and Samba (with AD as KDC) - desperately waiting for CephFS :-)

Best,

Martin

On Tue, Dec 15, 2015 at 11:51 AM, Wade Holler <wade.holler@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Keep it simple is my approach. #1

If needed Add rudimentary HA with pacemaker.

http://linux-ha.org/wiki/Samba

Cheers
Wade

On Tue, Dec 15, 2015 at 5:45 AM Alex Leake <A.M.D.Leake@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

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:

1. ​​Use a server as a head node, with an RBD mapped, then just export with samba
   
2. Use a platform like OpenStack / KVM to host VMs that reside on Ceph RBDs - and use those to export filesystems (similar to 1.)
3. 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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