If Syed can't fill in the blanks sufficiently for you when you talk to him later today, let me know and I will set up a call and loop in the team on our side who have more details and we can walk through our experience and knowledge on the topic.
Cheers, *Will Stevens* Chief Technology Officer c 514.826.0190 <https://goo.gl/NYZ8KK> On Wed, Jul 17, 2019 at 9:30 AM Jean-Francois Nadeau <the.jfnad...@gmail.com> wrote: > Thanks Will, > > I remember having the discussion with Pierre-Luc on his use of Swift for > templates. I was curious about the differences on S3 vs Swift for SS since > looking at the CS UI when it comes to setting up an S3 image store... the > NFS staging is optional. And this make sense to me if your object storage > is fast and accessible locally, why the need for staging/caching. The > documentation could mention if it is possible to use S3 secondary and > nothing else, starting with if SSVM templates can be uploaded to a > bucket. I will certainly ask Syed later today :) > > best > > Jfn > > On Wed, Jul 17, 2019 at 6:59 AM Will Stevens <wstev...@cloudops.com> > wrote: > > > Hey JF, > > We use the Swift object store as the storage backend for secondary > > storage. I have not tried the S3 integration, but the last time I looked > > at the code for this (admittedly, a long time ago) the Swift and s3 logic > > was more intertwined than I liked. The CloudOps/cloud.ca team had to do > a > > lot of work to get the Swift integration to a reasonable working state. I > > believe all of our changes have been upstreamed quite some time ago. I > > don't know if anyone is doing this for the S3 implementation. > > > > I can't speak to the S3 implementation because I have not looked at it > in a > > very long time, but the Swift implementation requires a "temporary NFS > > staging area" that essentially acts kind of like a buffer between the > > object store and primary storage when templates and such are used by the > > hosts. > > > > I think Pierre-Luc and Syed have a clearer picture of all the moving > > pieces, but that is a quick summary of what I know without digging in. > > > > Hope that helps. > > > > Cheers, > > > > Will > > > > On Tue, Jul 16, 2019, 10:24 PM Jean-Francois Nadeau < > > the.jfnad...@gmail.com> > > wrote: > > > > > Hello Everyone, > > > > > > I was wondering if it was common or even recommended to use an S3 > > > compatible storage system as the only secondary storage provider ? > > > > > > The environment is 4.11.3.0 with KVM (Centos 7.6), and our tier1 > storage > > > solution also provides an S3 compatible object store (apparently Minio > > > under the hood). > > > > > > I have always used NFS to install the SSVM templates and the install > > script > > > (cloud-install-sys-tmplt) only takes a mount point. How, if possible, > > > would I proceed with S3 only storage ? > > > > > > best, > > > > > > Jean-Francois > > > > > >
