Just curious but why not just use a hypervisor with rbd support? Are there VMware specific features you are reliant on?
On Fri, Dec 8, 2017 at 4:08 PM Brady Deetz <bde...@gmail.com> wrote: > I'm testing using RBD as VMWare datastores. I'm currently testing with > krbd+LVM on a tgt target hosted on a hypervisor. > > My Ceph cluster is HDD backed. > > In order to help with write latency, I added an SSD drive to my hypervisor > and made it a writeback cache for the rbd via LVM. So far I've managed to > smooth out my 4k write latency and have some pleasing results. > > Architecturally, my current plan is to deploy an iSCSI gateway on each > hypervisor hosting that hypervisor's own datastore. > > Does anybody have any experience with this kind of configuration, > especially with regard to LVM writeback caching combined with RBD? > _______________________________________________ > ceph-users mailing list > ceph-users@lists.ceph.com > http://lists.ceph.com/listinfo.cgi/ceph-users-ceph.com >
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