Hi Massimiliano,
  We are running CEPH agains our openstack instance running Xen:

ii  xen-hypervisor-4.6-amd64             4.6.0-1ubuntu4.3
 amd64        Xen Hypervisor on AMD64
ii  xen-system-amd64                     4.6.0-1ubuntu4.1
 amd64        Xen System on AMD64 (meta-package)
ii  xen-utils-4.6                        4.6.0-1ubuntu4.3
 amd64        XEN administrative tools
ii  xen-utils-common                     4.6.0-1ubuntu4.3
 all          Xen administrative tools - common files
ii  xenstore-utils                       4.6.0-1ubuntu4.1
 amd64        Xenstore command line utilities for Xen


2017-02-24 15:52 GMT+01:00 Massimiliano Cuttini <[email protected]>:

> 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/
>
> rbd is supported on libvirt 1.3.2, but It has to be recompiled the

ii  libvirt-bin           1.3.2-0~15.10~XXXX     amd64        programs for
the libvirt library
ii  libvirt0:amd64   1.3.2-0~15.10~XXXX     amd64        library for
interfacing with different virtualization systems

>
>
> 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 manuall, Thanks for any kind of support.
>
Attaching volumes from openstack portal (or using cinder volume manager),
has been working fine since 6 months ago, but I do not know what will
happen on next updates


Regards,
> Max
>
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