Re: ceph + vmware

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There is no Ceph plugin for VMware (and I think you need at least an Enterprise license for storage plugins, much $$$).
The "VMware" way to do this without the plugin would be to have a VM running on every host serving RBD devices over iSCSI to the other VMs (the way their storage applicances work, maybe you could even re-use them somehow? I haven't used VMware in a while, so not sure if one can login to the appliance and customize it...).
Nevertheless I think it's ugly, messy and is going to be even slower than Ceph by itself.

But you can always just use RBD client (kernel/userspace) in the VMs themselves, VMware has pretty fast networking so the overhead wouldn't be that large.

Jan


> On 08 Jul 2016, at 21:22, Oliver Dzombic <info@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> does anyone have experience how to connect vmware with ceph smart ?
> 
> iSCSI multipath does not really worked well.
> NFS could be, but i think thats just too much layers in between to have
> some useable performance.
> 
> Systems like ScaleIO have developed a vmware addon to talk with it.
> 
> Is there something similar out there for ceph ?
> 
> What are you using ?
> 
> Thank you !
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