Re: [ceph-users] Using Ceph as Storage for VMware

2013-05-09 Thread Leen Besselink
On Fri, May 10, 2013 at 12:12:45AM +0100, Neil Levine wrote: > Leen, > > Do you mean you get LIO working with RBD directly? Or are you just > re-exporting a kernel mounted volume? > Yes, re-exporting a kernel mounted volume on seperate gateway machines. > Neil > > On Thu, May 9, 2013 at 11:58

Re: [ceph-users] Using Ceph as Storage for VMware

2013-05-09 Thread Neil Levine
Leen, Do you mean you get LIO working with RBD directly? Or are you just re-exporting a kernel mounted volume? Neil On Thu, May 9, 2013 at 11:58 PM, Leen Besselink wrote: > On Thu, May 09, 2013 at 11:51:32PM +0100, Neil Levine wrote: >> Jared, >> >> As Weiguo says you will need to use a gateway

Re: [ceph-users] Using Ceph as Storage for VMware

2013-05-09 Thread Leen Besselink
On Thu, May 09, 2013 at 11:51:32PM +0100, Neil Levine wrote: > Jared, > > As Weiguo says you will need to use a gateway to present a Ceph block > device (RBD) in a format VMware understands. We've contributed the > relevant code to the TGT iSCSI target (see blog: > http://ceph.com/dev-notes/adding

Re: [ceph-users] Using Ceph as Storage for VMware

2013-05-09 Thread Neil Levine
Jared, As Weiguo says you will need to use a gateway to present a Ceph block device (RBD) in a format VMware understands. We've contributed the relevant code to the TGT iSCSI target (see blog: http://ceph.com/dev-notes/adding-support-for-rbd-to-stgt/) and though we haven't done a massive amount of

Re: [ceph-users] Using Ceph as Storage for VMware

2013-05-09 Thread w sun
RBD is not supported by VMware/vSphere. You will need to build a NFS/iSCSI/FC GW to support VMware. Here is a post someone has been trying and you may have to contact them directly for status, http://ceph.com/community/ceph-over-fibre-for-vmware/ --weiguo To: ceph-users@lists.ceph.com From: jare