Hi, We have had lot of troubles developing a ceph over xen. Finaly after haunderd of test, we talked with libvirt-users seems that the problem was found on libxl library which did not have support for rbd, but seems this is solved from 1.3.2 libvirt version and xen-utils >4.5
http://libvirt.org/git/?p=libvirt.git;a=commit;h=fb2bd208e52bda2d329b95d9545baa8bf04558af We do not check it yet because we are waiting for the last ubuntu 16.04 LTS released next month. Regards, I 2016-03-31 6:46 GMT+02:00 Jiri Kanicky <j...@ganomi.com>: > Hi. > > There is a solution for Ceph in XenServer. With the help of my engineer > Mark, we developed a simple patch which allows you to search and attach RBD > image on XenServer. We create LVHD over the RBD (not RBD per VDI mapping > yet), so it is far from ideal, but its a good start. The process of > creating the SR over RBD works even from XenCenter. > > https://github.com/mstarikov/rbdsr > > Install notes are included and its very simple. Takes you few minutes per > XenServer. > > We have been running this in our Sydney Citrix lab for sometime and I > have been running this at home also. Works great. For the future, the patch > should work in the upcoming version of XenServer (Dundee) as well. Also we > are trying to push native Ceph packages in the new version and build > experimental (not official or approved yet) version of smapi which would > allow us to map RBD per VDI. But there are no details on this. Anyway, > everyone is welcome to participate in improving the patch on github. > > Let me know if you have any questions. > > Cheers, > Jiri > > On 16/02/2016 15:30, Christian Balzer wrote: > >> On Tue, 16 Feb 2016 11:52:17 +0800 (CST) maoqi1982 wrote: >> >> Hi lists >>> Is there any solution or documents that ceph as xenserver or xen backend >>> storage? >>> >>> >>> Not really. >> >> There was a project to natively support Ceph (RBD) in Xenserver but that >> seems to have gone nowhere. >> >> There was also a thread last year here "RBD hard crash on kernel >> 3.10" (google for it) wher Shawn Edwards was working on something similar, >> but that seems to have died off silently as well. >> >> While you could of course do a NFS (some pains) or iSCSI (major pains) >> head for Ceph the pains and reduced performance make it not an attractive >> proposition. >> >> Christian >> > > _______________________________________________ > ceph-users mailing list > ceph-users@lists.ceph.com > http://lists.ceph.com/listinfo.cgi/ceph-users-ceph.com > -- ############################################################################ Iban Cabrillo Bartolome Instituto de Fisica de Cantabria (IFCA) Santander, Spain Tel: +34942200969 PGP PUBLIC KEY: http://pgp.mit.edu/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0xD9DF0B3D6C8C08AC ############################################################################ Bertrand Russell: *"El problema con el mundo es que los estúpidos están seguros de todo y los inteligentes están llenos de dudas*"
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