[ceph-users] ceph iscsi gateway

2025-02-10 Thread Iban Cabrillo
Good morning, I wanted to inquire about the status of the Ceph iSCSI gateway service. We currently have several machines installed with this technology that are working correctly, although I have seen that it appears to be discontinued since 2022. My question is whether to continue down th

[ceph-users] Ceph & iSCSI

2024-02-26 Thread Michael Worsham
I was reading on the Ceph site that iSCSI is no longer under active development since November 2022. Why is that? https://docs.ceph.com/en/latest/rbd/iscsi-overview/ -- Michael This message and its attachments are from Data Dimensions and are intended only for the use of the individual or enti

[ceph-users] ceph-iscsi on RL9

2023-12-23 Thread duluxoz
Hi All, Just successfully(?) completed a "live" update of the first node of a Ceph Quincy cluster from RL8 to RL9. Everything "seems" to be working - EXCEPT the iSCSI Gateway on that box. During the update the ceph-iscsi package was removed (ie `ceph-iscsi-3.6-2.g97f5b02.el8.noarch.rpm` - th

[ceph-users] Ceph iSCSI GW is too slow when compared with Raw RBD performance

2023-06-22 Thread Work Ceph
Hello guys, We have a Ceph cluster that runs just fine with Ceph Octopus; we use RBD for some workloads, RadosGW (via S3) for others, and iSCSI for some Windows clients. We started noticing some unexpected performance issues with iSCSI. I mean, an SSD pool is reaching 100MB of write speed for an

[ceph-users] Ceph iSCSI GW not working with VMware VMFS and Windows Clustered Storage Volumes (CSV)

2023-06-19 Thread Work Ceph
Hello guys, We have a Ceph cluster that runs just fine with Ceph Octopus; we use RBD for some workloads, RadosGW (via S3) for others, and iSCSI for some Windows clients. Recently, we had the need to add some VMWare clusters as clients for the iSCSI GW and also Windows systems with the use of Clus

[ceph-users] Ceph iscsi gateway semi deprecation warning?

2023-05-26 Thread Mark Kirkwood
I am looking at using an iscsi gateway in front of a ceph setup. However the warning in the docs is concerning: The iSCSI gateway is in maintenance as of November 2022. This means that it is no longer in active development and will not be updated to add new features. Does this mean I should

[ceph-users] ceph-iscsi-cli: cannot remove duplicated gateways.

2023-02-16 Thread luckydog xf
Hi, please see the output below. ceph-iscsi-gw-1.ipa.pthl.hklocalhost.localdomain is the one who is being messed up with a wrong hostname. I want to delete it. /iscsi-target...-igw/gateways> ls o- gateways ...

[ceph-users] ceph-iscsi lock ping pong

2022-12-12 Thread Stolte, Felix
Hi guys, we are using ceph-iscsi to provide block storage for Microsoft Exchange and vmware vsphere. Ceph docs state that you need to configure Windows iSCSI Initatior for fail-over-only but there is no such point for vmware. In my tcmu-runner logs on both ceph-iscsi gateways I see the followin

[ceph-users] Ceph iSCSI & oVirt

2022-09-20 Thread duluxoz
Hi Everybody (Hi Dr. Nick), I'm attacking this issue from both ends (ie from the Ceph-end and from the oVirt-end - I've posted questions on both mailing lists to ensure we capture the required knowledge-bearer(s)). We've got a Ceph Cluster set up with three iSCSI Gateways configured, and we

[ceph-users] Ceph iSCSI rbd-target.api Failed to Load

2022-09-07 Thread duluxoz
Hi All, I've followed the instructions on the CEPH Doco website on Configuring the iSCSI Target. Everything went AOK up to the point where I try to start the rbd-target-api service, which fails (the rbd-target-gw service started OK). A `systemctl status rbd-target-api` gives: ~~~ rbd-target

[ceph-users] Ceph-iscsi

2022-03-29 Thread Michel Niyoyita
Hello team I have a problem which I want the team to help me on. I have ceph cluster with Health OK which is running in testing environment with 3 nodes with 4 osds each ,and 3 mons plus 2 managers, deployed using ansible. the purpose of the cluster is to work as backend of openstack as storage an

[ceph-users] CEPH iSCSI Gateway

2022-01-03 Thread Carlos Rebelato de Alcantara
Hi Guys. I have a doubt about CEPH working with iSCSI Gateways. Today we have a cluster with 10 OSD Nodes, 3 Monitors and 02 iSCSI Gateways. We are planning to expand de gateways up to 04 machines. We understood the process to do this, but we would like to know if it's necessary to adjust some c

[ceph-users] ceph-iscsi / tcmu-runner bad pefromance with vmware esxi

2021-09-23 Thread José H . Freidhof
Hello together, i need some help on our ceph 16.2.5 cluster as iscsi target with esxi nodes background infos: - we have build 3x osd nodes with 60 bluestore osd with and 60x6TB spinning disks, 12 ssd´s and 3nvme. - osd nodes have 32cores and 256gb Ram - the osd disk are connected to

[ceph-users] ceph-iscsi issue after upgrading from nautilus to octopus

2021-04-15 Thread icy chan
Hi, I had several clusters running as nautilus and pending upgrading to octopus. I am now testing the upgrade steps for ceph cluster from nautilus to octopus using cephadm adopt in lab referred to below link: - https://docs.ceph.com/en/octopus/cephadm/adoption/ Lab environment: 3 all-in-one node

[ceph-users] Ceph iscsi help

2021-03-01 Thread Várkonyi János
Hi All, I2d like to install a Ceph Nautilus on Ubuntu 18.04 LTS and give the storage to 2 windows server via ISCSI. I choose the Nautilus because of the deploy function I don't want to another VM to cephadm. So I can isntall the ceph and it is working properly but can't setup the icsi gateway.

[ceph-users] CEPH-ISCSI fails when restarting rbd-target-api and won't work anymore

2020-11-28 Thread Hamidreza Hosseini
I have an issue on ceph-iscsi ( ubuntu 20 LTS and Ceph 15.2.6) after I restart rbd-target-api, it fails and not starting again: ``` sudo systemctl status rbd-target-api.service ● rbd-target-api.service - Ceph iscsi target configuration API Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/system/rbd-target-a

[ceph-users] Ceph iSCSI Performance

2020-10-05 Thread DHilsbos
All; I've finally gotten around to setting up iSCSI gateways on my primary production cluster, and performance is terrible. We're talking 1/4 to 1/3 of our current solution. I see no evidence of network congestion on any involved network link. I see no evidence CPU or memory being a problem o

[ceph-users] ceph iscsi latency too high for esxi?

2020-10-04 Thread Golasowski Martin
Hi, does anyone here use CEPH iSCSI with VMware ESXi? It seems that we are hitting the 5 second timeout limit on software HBA in ESXi. It appears whenever there is increased load on the cluster, like deep scrub or rebalance. Is it normal behaviour in production? Or is there something special we

[ceph-users] CEPH iSCSI issue - ESXi command timeout

2020-10-01 Thread Golasowski Martin
Dear All, a week ago we had to reboot our ESXi nodes since our CEPH cluster sudennly stopped serving all I/O. We have identified a VM (vCenter appliance) which was swapping heavily and causing heavy load. However, since then we are experiencing strange issues, as if the cluster cannot handle an

[ceph-users] Ceph iSCSI Questions

2020-09-04 Thread DHilsbos
All; We've used iSCSI to support virtualization for a while, and have used multi-pathing almost the entire time. Now, I'm looking to move from our single box iSCSI hosts to iSCSI on Ceph. We have 2 independent, non-routed, subnets assigned to iSCSI (let's call them 192.168.250.0/24 and 192.16

[ceph-users] ceph-iscsi create RBDs on erasure coded data pools

2020-01-30 Thread Wesley Dillingham
Is it possible to create an EC backed RBD via ceph-iscsi tools (gwcli, rbd-target-api)? It appears that a pre-existing RBD created with the rbd command can be imported, but there is no means to directly create an EC backed RBD. The API seems to expect a single pool field in the body to work with.

[ceph-users] ceph-iscsi and tcmu-runner RPMs for CentOS?

2019-09-07 Thread Robert Sander
Hi, In the Documentation on https://docs.ceph.com/docs/nautilus/rbd/iscsi-target-cli/ it is stated that you need at least CentOS 7.5 with at least kernel 4.16 and to install tcmu-runner and ceph-iscsi "from your Linux distribution's software repository". CentOS does not know about tcmu-runner nor