Hello Eneko; Firstly, thanks for your comments!
You mentioned that machines see a QEMU IDE/SCSI disk, they don't know whether its on ceph, NFS, local, LVM, ... so it works OK for any VM guest SO. But what if I want to CEPH cluster to serve a whole range of clients in the data center, ranging from ESXi, Microsoft Hypervisors, Solaris (unvirtualized), AIX (unvirtualized) etc ... In particular, I'm being asked to create a NAS and iSCSI Block storage farm with an ability to serve not just Linux but a range of operating system(s), some virtualized, some not . ... I love the distributive nature of CEPH but using Proxy nodes (or heads) sort of goes against the distributive concept... Warmest Regards Steven Sim Mobile : 96963117 Principal Systems 77 High Street #10-07 High Street Plaza Singapore 179433 Company Registration Number : 201002783M On 30 December 2014 at 18:55, Eneko Lacunza <elacu...@binovo.es> wrote: > Hi Steven, > > Welcome to the list. > > On 30/12/14 11:47, Steven Sim wrote: > >> This is my first posting and I apologize if the content or query is not >> appropriate. >> >> My understanding for CEPH is the block and NAS services are through >> specialized (albeit opensource) kernel modules for Linux. >> >> What about the other OS e.g. Solaris, AIX, Windows, ESX ... >> >> If the solution is to use a proxy, would using the MON servers (as iSCSI >> and NAS proxies) be okay? >> > Virtual machines see a QEMU IDE/SCSI disk, they don't know whether its on > ceph, NFS, local, LVM, ... so it works OK for any VM guest SO. > > Currently on Proxmox, it's qemu-kvm the ceph (RBD) client, not the linux > kernel. > >> >> What about performance? >> > > It depends a lot on the setup. Do you have something on your mind? :) > > Cheers > Eneko > > -- > Zuzendari Teknikoa / Director Técnico > Binovo IT Human Project, S.L. > Telf. 943575997 > 943493611 > Astigarraga bidea 2, planta 6 dcha., ofi. 3-2; 20180 Oiartzun (Gipuzkoa) > www.binovo.es > > _______________________________________________ > ceph-users mailing list > ceph-users@lists.ceph.com > http://lists.ceph.com/listinfo.cgi/ceph-users-ceph.com > >
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