Hello guys, 

I am currently running a ceph cluster for running vms with qemu + rbd. It works 
pretty well and provides a good degree of failover. I am able to run 
maintenance tasks on the ceph nodes without interrupting vms IO. 

I would like to do the same with VMWare / XenServer hypervisors, but I am not 
really sure how to achieve this. Initially I thought of using iscsi 
multipathing, however, as it turns out, multipathing is more for load balancing 
and nic/switch failure. It does not allow me to perform maintenance on the 
iscsi target without interrupting service to vms. 

Has anyone done either a PoC or better a production environment where they've 
used ceph as a backend storage with vmware / xenserver? The important element 
for me is to have the ability of performing maintenance tasks and resilience to 
failovers without interrupting IO to vms. Are there any recommendations or 
howtos on how this could be achieved? 

Many thanks 

Andrei 

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