Maybe two Ceph clusters with RBD mirror and re-exporting the RBD(s) via NFS?
allow the company to survive the power outages or storage crashes.Plus, I want to make this transparent for the devs and everyone - just an infrastructure replacement that will buy me all of the ceph benefits andThe files are rather small, pdfs and xml of 50-300KB mostly.each server would only access the filesystem that is in the same site. And if one of the sited go down - no pain.The multi site ceph was supposed to solve this problem for us. This way we would have only local mounts, i.e.and we need to remount all of the servers and what not.In this setup once the power goes down in our main site - we're stuck with a bit (several hours) outdated filesaccessing a NAS (let's call it a NAS, although it's an IBM v7000 Unified that serves the files via NFS).I'll explain.Right now we have 2 sites (racks) with several dozens of servers at eachThe biggest problem is that it works active-passive, i.e. we always access one of the storages for read/writeand the other one is replicated once every few hours, so it's more for backup needs.The total size is about 25 TB right now.We're a low budget company, so your advise about developing is not going to happen as we have no such skills or resources for this.On Mon, May 21, 2018 at 5:12 PM, David Turner <drakonstein@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:Not a lot of people use object storage multi-site. I doubt anyone is using this like you are. In theory it would work, but even if somebody has this setup running, it's almost impossible to tell if it would work for your needs and use case. You really should try it out for yourself to see if it works to your needs. And if you feel so inclined, report back here with how it worked.If you're asking for advice, why do you need a networked posix filesystem? Unless you are using proprietary software with this requirement, it's generally lazy coding that requires a mounted filesystem like this and you should aim towards using object storage instead without any sort of NFS layer. It's a little more work for the developers, but is drastically simpler to support and manage.On Mon, May 21, 2018 at 10:06 AM Up Safe <upandsafe@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:won't this work as active-active?that serves s3 objects via nfs to clients) -and I add ganesha (which to my understanding is an "adapter"If ceph object storage can be set up in multi site configuration,guys,please tell me if I'm in the right direction.ThanksOn Mon, May 21, 2018 at 11:48 AM, Up Safe <upandsafe@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:Will it work?with cephfs - there is only one and one I can live with.I was previously reading about rgw with ganesha and it was full of limitations.how about ganesha? will it work with cephfs and multi site setup?ok, thanks.but it seems to me that having pool replicas spread over sites is a bit too risky performance wise.On Mon, May 21, 2018 at 10:57 AM, Adrian Saul <Adrian.Saul@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:Confidentiality: This email and any attachments are confidential and may be subject to copyright, legal or some other professional privilege. They are intended solely for the attention and use of the named addressee(s). They may only be copied, distributed or disclosed with the consent of the copyright owner. If you have received this email by mistake or by breach of the confidentiality clause, please notify the sender immediately by return email and delete or destroy all copies of the email. Any confidentiality, privilege or copyright is not waived or lost because this email has been sent to you by mistake.
We run CephFS in a limited fashion in a stretched cluster of about 40km with redundant 10G fibre between sites – link latency is in the order of 1-2ms. Performance is reasonable for our usage but is noticeably slower than comparable local ceph based RBD shares.
Essentially we just setup the ceph pools behind cephFS to have replicas on each site. To export it we are simply using Linux kernel NFS and it gets exported from 4 hosts that act as CephFS clients. Those 4 hosts are then setup in an DNS record that resolves to all 4 IPs, and we then use automount to do automatic mounting and host failover on the NFS clients. Automount takes care of finding the quickest and available NFS server.
I stress this is a limited setup that we use for some fairly light duty, but we are looking to move things like user home directories onto this. YMMV.
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Hi,
can you be a bit more specific?
I need to understand whether this is doable at all.
Other options would be using ganesha, but I understand it's very limited on NFS;
or start looking at gluster.
Basically, I need the multi site option, i.e. active-active read-write.
Thanks
On Wed, May 16, 2018 at 5:50 PM, David Turner <drakonstein@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Object storage multi-site is very specific to using object storage. It uses the RGW API's to sync s3 uploads between each site. For CephFS you might be able to do a sync of the rados pools, but I don't think that's actually a thing yet. RBD mirror is also a layer on top of things to sync between sites. Basically I think you need to do something on top of the Filesystem as opposed to within Ceph to sync it between sites.
On Wed, May 16, 2018 at 9:51 AM Up Safe <upandsafe@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
But this is not the question here.
The question is whether I can configure multi site for CephFS.
Will I be able to do so by following the guide to set up the multi site for object storage?
Thanks
On Wed, May 16, 2018, 16:45 John Hearns <hearnsj@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
The answer given at the seminar yesterday was that a practical limit was around 60km.
I don't think 100km is that much longer. I defer to the experts here.
On 16 May 2018 at 15:24, Up Safe <upandsafe@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Hi,
About a 100 km.
I have a 2-4ms latency between them.
Leon
On Wed, May 16, 2018, 16:13 John Hearns <hearnsj@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Leon,
I was at a Lenovo/SuSE seminar yesterday and asked a similar question regarding separated sites.
How far apart are these two geographical locations? It does matter.
On 16 May 2018 at 15:07, Up Safe <upandsafe@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Hi,
I'm trying to build a multi site setup.
But the only guides I've found on the net were about building it with object storage or rbd.
What I need is cephfs.
I.e. I need to have 2 synced file storages at 2 geographical locations.
Is this possible?
Also, if I understand correctly - cephfs is just a component on top of the object storage.
Following this logic - it should be possible, right?
Or am I totally off here?
Thanks,
Leon
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