Re: [ceph-users] Utilizing DAS on XEN or XCP hosts for Openstack Cinder

2014-03-19 Thread Paul Mitchener
user experience, what sort of data throughput would I expect to see? Thanks Paul -Original Message- From: Kyle Bader [mailto:kyle.ba...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, 12 March 2014 7:56 AM To: Paul Mitchener Cc: ceph-users Subject: Re: [ceph-users] Utilizing DAS on XEN or XCP hosts for Open

[ceph-users] Utilizing DAS on XEN or XCP hosts for Openstack Cinder

2014-03-11 Thread Paul Mitchener
Hey everyone, hopefully you can give me some direction here. The Scenario: We have multiple dual XEON servers with 4 x 1Tb hard drives as well as servers with 8, 12 & 16 x 1Tb drives. Our plan is to deploy Openstack with XCP (XEN) as a hypervisor and hopefully utilizing the direct attached stor

[ceph-users] Utilizing host DAS in XEN or XCP

2014-03-06 Thread Paul Mitchener
I am new to Ceph and am looking at trying to utilize some existing hardware to perform 2 tasks per node. We have a 2 servers which can hold 12 & 16 drives and probably 4 servers which take 4 drives. Ideally, if possible, we would like to install XCP on each of these servers, and use Ceph to clust