Hi Max, I've played around with ceph on xenserver about 2-3 years ago. I made it work, but it was all hackish and a lot of manual work. It didn't play well with the cloud orchestrator and I gave up hoping that either Citrix or Ceph team would make it work. Currently, I would not recommend using it in production. There was very little done since and I am not sure if it is even safe to use it on the current versions of ceph. You should be able to run nfs over ceph and use ceph this way, but I am not sure how well it would perform.
Taking into account that ceph has been converted into the redhat house, I doubt that they will play nicely with xenserver. Please correct my way of thinking, but my guess is that from RH point of view all the efforts would go to make ceph work well in kvm environment and forget about other hypervisors. From the xenserver point of view, I doubt people will be taking it seriously until ceph proves itself to be rock solid, or have commercial development backing, which so far, doesn't seem like the case. Just reading about issues with ceph during install, updates, usage, etc. on this thread tells me that ceph is still rough and needs to be polished. Andrei > From: "Massimiliano Cuttini" <[email protected]> > To: "ceph-users" <[email protected]> > Sent: Friday, 24 February, 2017 14:52:37 > Subject: [ceph-users] Ceph on XenServer > Dear all, > even if Ceph should be officially supported by Xen since 4 years. > * > http://xenserver.org/blog/entry/tech-preview-of-xenserver-libvirt-ceph.html > * https://ceph.com/geen-categorie/xenserver-support-for-rbd/ > Still there is no support yet. > At this point there are only some self-made plugin and solution around. > Here some: > * https://github.com/rposudnevskiy/RBDSR > * https://github.com/mstarikov/rbdsr > * https://github.com/FlorianHeigl/xen-ceph-rbd > Nobody know how much they are compatible or if they are gonna to break Xen the > next update. > The ugly truth is that XEN is not still able to fully support Ceph and we can > only pray that one of the plugin above will not destroy our precious data or > VDI. > Does anybody had some experience with the plugin above? > Which one you'll reccomend? > Is there any good installation guide to let this work correctly? > Can I just install Ceph with ceph-deploy or do I have to unlock repos on the > xenserver and instal it manually? > Thanks for any kind of support. > Regards, > Max > _______________________________________________ > ceph-users mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.ceph.com/listinfo.cgi/ceph-users-ceph.com
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