They're volume based snapshots at this point. We've looked at what it would
take to support VMsnapshots, but we're not there yet, as the memory would need
to be stored outside of the actual volume.
Primary snapshots work well. We still need to reintroduce the code that allows
for disabling primary to secondary coping of snapshots should an organization
not want to do that.
Templates are also pre-cached into Ceph to speed up deployment of VMs as Wido
indicates below. This greatly reduced the secondary to primary copying of
template images.
Live migration works well land has since Wido introduced the Ceph features
years ago.
We have started looking at what it would take to support Ceph volume
replication between zones/regions, as that would be a great Business Continuity
feature.
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From: Dag Sonstebo <dag.sonst...@shapeblue.com>
Sent: Friday, July 27, 2018 8:32 AM
To: dev@cloudstack.apache.org
Subject: Re: CEPH / CloudStack features
Excellent, thanks Wido.
When you say snapshotting – is this VM snapshots, volume snapshots or both?
How about live migration, does this work?
Regards,
Dag Sonstebo
Cloud Architect
ShapeBlue
On 27/07/2018, 13:41, "Wido den Hollander" <w...@widodh.nl> wrote:
Hi,
On 07/27/2018 12:18 PM, Dag Sonstebo wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I’m trying to find out more about CEPH compatibility with CloudStack /
KVM – i.e. trying to put together a feature matrix of what works and what
doesn’t compared to NFS (or other block storage platforms).
> There’s not a lot of up to date information on this – the configuration
guide on [1] is all I’ve located so far apart from a couple of one-liners in
the official documentation.
>
> Could I get some feedback from the Ceph users in the community?
>
Yes! So, at first, Ceph is KVM-only. Other hypervisors do not support
RBD (RADOS Block Device) from Ceph.
What is supported:
- Thin provisioning
- Discard / fstrim (Requires VirtIO-SCSI)
- Volume cloning
- Snapshots
- Disk I/O throttling (done by libvirt)
Meaning, when a template is deployed for the first time in a Primary
Storage it's written to Ceph and all other Instances afterwards are a
clone of that primary image.
You can snapshot a RBD image and then have it copied to Secondary
Storage. Now, I'm not sure if keeping the snapshot in Primary Storage
and reverting works yet, I haven't looked at that in recent times.
The snapshotting part on Primary Storage is probably something that
needs some love and attention, but otherwise I think all other features
are supported.
I would recommend a CentOS 7 or Ubuntu 16.04/18.04 hypervisor, both work
just fine with Ceph.
Wido
> Regards,
> Dag Sonstebo
>
> [1] http://docs.ceph.com/docs/master/rbd/rbd-cloudstack/
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