Re: [ceph-users] Ceph OSD nodes in XenServer VMs

2015-09-07 Thread Jiri Kanicky
Hi. As we would like to use the CEPH storage with CloudStack/XS we have to use NFS or iSCSI client nodes to provide shared storage. To avoid having several nodes of physical hardware we thought that we could run NFS/iSCSI client node on the same box with Ceph OSD node. Possibly we could even

Re: [ceph-users] Ceph OSD nodes in XenServer VMs

2015-08-20 Thread Steven McDonald
Hi Jiri, On Thu, 20 Aug 2015 11:55:55 +1000 Jiri Kanicky wrote: > We are experimenting with an idea to run OSD nodes in XenServer VMs. > We believe this could provide better flexibility, backups for the > nodes etc. Could you expand on this? As written, it seems like a bad idea to me, just beca

Re: [ceph-users] Ceph OSD nodes in XenServer VMs

2015-08-20 Thread Christian Balzer
Hello, On Thu, 20 Aug 2015 11:55:55 +1000 Jiri Kanicky wrote: > Hi all, > > We are experimenting with an idea to run OSD nodes in XenServer VMs. We > believe this could provide better flexibility, backups for the nodes etc. > > For example: > Xenserver with 4 HDDs dedicated for Ceph. > We wou