Ceph on XenServer

[Massimiliano Cuttini <max@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Dear all,

even if Ceph should be officially supported by Xen since 4 years.

• http://xenserver.org/blog/entry/tech-preview-of-xenserver-libvirt-ceph.html
• https://ceph.com/geen-categorie/xenserver-support-for-rbd/

Still there is no support yet.

At this point there are only some self-made plugin and solution around.
Here some:

• https://github.com/rposudnevskiy/RBDSR
• https://github.com/mstarikov/rbdsr
  
• https://github.com/FlorianHeigl/xen-ceph-rbd

Nobody know how much they are compatible or if they are gonna to break Xen the next update.

The ugly truth is that XEN is not still able to fully support Ceph and we can only pray that one of the plugin above will not destroy our precious data or VDI.

Does anybody had some experience with the plugin above?
Which one you'll reccomend?
Is there any good installation guide to let this work correctly?
Can I just install Ceph with ceph-deploy or do I have to unlock repos on the xenserver and instal it manually?

Thanks for any kind of support.

Regards,
Max

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