Excellent, thanks Wido.
When you say snapshotting – is this VM snapshots, volume snapshots or both?
How about live migration, does this work?
Regards,
Dag Sonstebo
Cloud Architect
ShapeBlue
On 27/07/2018, 13:41, "Wido den Hollander" <w...@widodh.nl> wrote:
Hi,
On 07/27/2018 12:18 PM, Dag Sonstebo wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I’m trying to find out more about CEPH compatibility with CloudStack /
KVM – i.e. trying to put together a feature matrix of what works and what
doesn’t compared to NFS (or other block storage platforms).
> There’s not a lot of up to date information on this – the configuration
guide on [1] is all I’ve located so far apart from a couple of one-liners in
the official documentation.
>
> Could I get some feedback from the Ceph users in the community?
>
Yes! So, at first, Ceph is KVM-only. Other hypervisors do not support
RBD (RADOS Block Device) from Ceph.
What is supported:
- Thin provisioning
- Discard / fstrim (Requires VirtIO-SCSI)
- Volume cloning
- Snapshots
- Disk I/O throttling (done by libvirt)
Meaning, when a template is deployed for the first time in a Primary
Storage it's written to Ceph and all other Instances afterwards are a
clone of that primary image.
You can snapshot a RBD image and then have it copied to Secondary
Storage. Now, I'm not sure if keeping the snapshot in Primary Storage
and reverting works yet, I haven't looked at that in recent times.
The snapshotting part on Primary Storage is probably something that
needs some love and attention, but otherwise I think all other features
are supported.
I would recommend a CentOS 7 or Ubuntu 16.04/18.04 hypervisor, both work
just fine with Ceph.
Wido
> Regards,
> Dag Sonstebo
>
> [1] http://docs.ceph.com/docs/master/rbd/rbd-cloudstack/
>
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