Thank you, All for your suggestions and ideas. what is your view on using MON, MGR, MDS and cephfs client or samba-ceph vfs in a single machine (10 core xeon CPU with 16GB RAM and SSD disk)?. On Sun, Mar 15, 2020 at 3:58 PM Dr. Marco Savoca <quaternionma@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi Jesper, > > > > can you state your suggestion more precisely? I have a similar setup and > I’m also interested. > > > > If i understand you right, you suggest to create an RBD image for data > that attachs to a VM with installed samba Server. > > > > But what would be the „best“ way to connect? Kernel module mapping or > iSCSI targets. > > > > Another possibilty would be to create an RBD Image containing data and > samba and use it with QEMU. > > > > Regards > > > > Marco Savoca > > > > *Von: *jesper@xxxxxxxx > *Gesendet: *Samstag, 14. März 2020 09:15 > *An: *Amudhan P <amudhan83@xxxxxxxxx> > *Cc: *ceph-users <ceph-users@xxxxxxx> > *Betreff: * Re: New 3 node Ceph cluster > > > > Hi. > > > > Unless there is plans for going to Petabyte scale with it - then I really > > dont see the benefits of getting CephFS involved over just an RBD image > > with a VM running standard samba on top. > > > > More performant and less complexity to handle - zero gains (by my book) > > > > Jesper > > > > > Hi, > > > > > > I am planning to create a new 3 node ceph storage cluster. > > > > > > I will be using Cephfs + with samba for max 10 clients for upload and > > > download. > > > > > > Storage Node HW is Intel Xeon E5v2 8 core single Proc, 32GB RAM and 10Gb > > > Nic 2 nos., 6TB SATA HDD 24 Nos. each node, OS separate SSD disk. > > > > > > Earlier I have tested orchestration using ceph-deploy in the test setup. > > > now, is there any other alternative to ceph-deploy? > > > > > > Can I restrict folder access to the user using cephfs + vfs samba or > > > should > > > I use ceph client + samba? > > > > > > Ubuntu or Centos? > > > > > > Any block size consideration for object size, metadata when using cephfs? > > > > > > Idea or suggestion from existing users. I am also going to start to > > > explore > > > all the above. > > > > > > regards > > > Amudhan > > > _______________________________________________ > > > ceph-users mailing list -- ceph-users@xxxxxxx > > > To unsubscribe send an email to ceph-users-leave@xxxxxxx > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > ceph-users mailing list -- ceph-users@xxxxxxx > > To unsubscribe send an email to ceph-users-leave@xxxxxxx > > > _______________________________________________ ceph-users mailing list -- ceph-users@xxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to ceph-users-leave@xxxxxxx