> > On Fri, Apr 12, 2013 at 4:14 PM, Craig Sanders <[email protected]> wrote: > > i'd agree with this - CEPH is cool. > > > > in fact, i'd also be inclined to use CEPH as the object store with > > Openstack instead of Swift - ceph's object store does everything that > > swift does and also offers the distributed block storage layer on top of > > that - thus avoiding the need for QCOW2 over NFS (yuk!) or a dedicated > > netapp server or similar for shared VM images. > > Actually Swift can do one thing ceph doesn't swift has really awesome > geographic replication built in. > http://swiftstack.com/blog/2012/09/16/globally-distributed-openstack- > swift-cluster/ > http://www.mirantis.com/blog/configuring-multi-region-cluster-openstack- > swift/ > > > Once that gets added to ceph there is very little use for anything but ceph. > (Ceph can also act as a back end store for hadoop)
Hmmm... my list of new things to learn is growing rapidly! James _______________________________________________ luv-main mailing list [email protected] http://lists.luv.asn.au/listinfo/luv-main
