See my post from a few days ago. If you value your sanity and free time, use NFS. Otherwise SCST is probably your best bet at the moment, or maybe try out the SUSE implementation.
> -----Original Message----- > From: ceph-users [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Jan > Schermer > Sent: 08 July 2016 20:53 > To: Oliver Dzombic <[email protected]> > Cc: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [ceph-users] ceph + vmware > > There is no Ceph plugin for VMware (and I think you need at least an > Enterprise license for storage plugins, much $$$). > The "VMware" way to do this without the plugin would be to have a VM running > on every host serving RBD devices over iSCSI to the > other VMs (the way their storage applicances work, maybe you could even > re-use them somehow? I haven't used VMware in a while, > so not sure if one can login to the appliance and customize it...). > Nevertheless I think it's ugly, messy and is going to be even slower than > Ceph by itself. > > But you can always just use RBD client (kernel/userspace) in the VMs > themselves, VMware has pretty fast networking so the > overhead wouldn't be that large. > > Jan > > > > On 08 Jul 2016, at 21:22, Oliver Dzombic <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > Hi, > > > > does anyone have experience how to connect vmware with ceph smart ? > > > > iSCSI multipath does not really worked well. > > NFS could be, but i think thats just too much layers in between to > > have some useable performance. > > > > Systems like ScaleIO have developed a vmware addon to talk with it. > > > > Is there something similar out there for ceph ? > > > > What are you using ? > > > > Thank you ! > > > > -- > > Mit freundlichen Gruessen / Best regards > > > > Oliver Dzombic > > IP-Interactive > > > > mailto:[email protected] > > > > Anschrift: > > > > IP Interactive UG ( haftungsbeschraenkt ) Zum Sonnenberg 1-3 > > 63571 Gelnhausen > > > > HRB 93402 beim Amtsgericht Hanau > > Geschäftsführung: Oliver Dzombic > > > > Steuer Nr.: 35 236 3622 1 > > UST ID: DE274086107 > > > > _______________________________________________ > > ceph-users mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://lists.ceph.com/listinfo.cgi/ceph-users-ceph.com > > _______________________________________________ > ceph-users mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.ceph.com/listinfo.cgi/ceph-users-ceph.com _______________________________________________ ceph-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.ceph.com/listinfo.cgi/ceph-users-ceph.com
