Re: [ceph-users] real beginner question

2014-10-21 Thread Dan Geist
14 6:30:26 AM Subject: Re: [ceph-users] real beginner question Hello, On Tue, 21 Oct 2014 10:53:54 +0100 Ranju Upadhyay wrote: > Hi Dan and Ashish, > > Many thanks for the replies. > > It is partly for the learning( and perhaps a production system in > future) that we a

Re: [ceph-users] real beginner question

2014-10-21 Thread Christian Balzer
things to "just work" you will want 3 OSD nodes. Christian > Thanks > Ranju Upadhyay > Maynooth University, Ireland > > -Original Message- > From: Dan Geist [mailto:d...@polter.net] > Sent: 20 October 2014 15:11 > To: Ranju Upadhyay > Cc: ceph-user

Re: [ceph-users] real beginner question

2014-10-21 Thread Ranju Upadhyay
-flight checklist) might be good. Thanks Ranju Upadhyay Maynooth University, Ireland -Original Message- From: Dan Geist [mailto:d...@polter.net] Sent: 20 October 2014 15:11 To: Ranju Upadhyay Cc: ceph-users@lists.ceph.com Subject: Re: [ceph-users] real beginner question Hi, Ranju. Are you

Re: [ceph-users] real beginner question

2014-10-20 Thread Dan Geist
Hi, Ranju. Are you talking about setting up Ceph Monitors and OSD nodes on VMs for the purposes of learning, or adding a Ceph storage cluster to an existing KVM-based infrastructure that's using local storage/NFS/iSCSI for block storage now? - If the former, this is pretty easy. Although perfor

Re: [ceph-users] real beginner question

2014-10-20 Thread Ashish Chandra
Hi Ranjan, Is it possible to set up ceph in an already virtualized environment? Yes obviously, you can try out all the features of ceph in a virtualized environment. Infact it is the easiet and recommended way of playing with Ceph. Ceph docs lists the way to do this, it should take hardly any tim