Hi Mensah,

as already mentioned Gregory, you can use RBD at same time from both
servers - Microsoft CSV should be run well.
I don't make any test for CSV yet, so can you please try and do
quick response about that?


On Thu, May 23, 2013 at 8:40 PM, Mensah, Yao (CIV) <[email protected]>wrote:

>  Thank you very much for your prompt response…****
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> So basically I can’t use cluster aware tool like Microsoft CSV on the RBD,
> is that correct? ****
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> What I am trying to understand is that can I have 2 physical hosts (Maybe
> Dell PowerEdge2950)****
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> *host1 with VM#0-10 ****
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> *host2 with  VM #10-20****
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> And both of these hosts accessing one big LUN or, in this case ceph RBD? *
> ***
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> Can host1 failed all it VMs to host2 in case that machine has trouble and
> still make it resources available to my users? This is very important to us
> if we really want to explore this new avenue of Ceph****
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> Thank you,****
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> Yao Mensah****
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> Systems Administrator II****
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> A+****
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> *From:* Dave Spano [mailto:[email protected]]
> *Sent:* Thursday, May 23, 2013 1:19 PM
> *To:* Mensah, Yao (CIV)
> *Cc:* [email protected]
> *Subject:* Re: [ceph-users] FW: About RBD****
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> Unless something changed, each RBD needs to be attached to 1 host at a
> time like an ISCSI lun. ****
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> Dave Spano
> Optogenics
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> *From: *"Yao Mensah (CIV)" <[email protected]>
> *To: *[email protected]
> *Sent: *Thursday, May 23, 2013 1:10:53 PM
> *Subject: *[ceph-users] FW: About RBD****
>
> FYI****
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>  ****
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> *From:* Mensah, Yao (CIV)
> *Sent:* Wednesday, May 22, 2013 5:59 PM
> *To:* '[email protected]'
> *Subject:* About RBD****
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>  ****
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> Hello,****
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> I was doing some reading on your web site about ceph and what it capable
> of. I have one question and maybe you can help on this:****
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> Can ceph RBD be used by 2 physical hosts at the same time? Or, is Ceph rbd
> CSV(Clustered Shared Volumes) aware? ****
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> Thank you, ****
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> Yao Mensah****
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> Systems Administrator II****
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> OLS Servers****
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