[ceph-users] Ceph or Gluster for implementing big NAS

2018-11-12 Thread Premysl Kouril
Hi, We are planning to build NAS solution which will be primarily used via NFS and CIFS and workloads ranging from various archival application to more “real-time processing”. The NAS will not be used as a block storage for virtual machines, so the access really will always be file oriented. We a

Re: [ceph-users] Ceph or Gluster for implementing big NAS

2018-11-12 Thread Premysl Kouril
;proxy") mount. >> > >> > I had such a setup with nfs and switched to mount CephFS directly. If >> using NFS with the same data, you must make sure your HA works well to >> avoid data corruption. >> > With ceph-fuse you directly connect to the cluster, on

Re: [ceph-users] Ceph or Gluster for implementing big NAS

2018-11-12 Thread Premysl Kouril
> mount to clients directly. And also can remove that single point of network > congestion. > > Guess depends on the performance and uptime required , as I’d say that > could factory into your decisions. > > On Mon, 12 Nov 2018 at 10:36 PM, Premysl Kouril > wrote: >

Re: [ceph-users] Ceph or Gluster for implementing big NAS

2018-11-12 Thread Premysl Kouril
use case mean you need something like nfs/cifs and can’t use > CephFS mount directly? > > Has been quite a few advances in that area with quotas and user management > in recent versions. > > But obviously all depends on your use case at client end. > > On Mon, 12 Nov 2018