Re: [ceph-users] Clustering a few NAS into a Ceph cluster
On 05/03/2015 18:18, Thomas Lemarchand wrote: Hello Loïc, It does exists ... but maybe not at the scale you are looking for : http://www.fujitsu.com/global/products/computing/storage/eternus-cd/ It's slightly above my price range ;-) I read a paper about their hardware, it seems like they work with inktank (redhat) on this. -- Loïc Dachary, Artisan Logiciel Libre signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature ___ ceph-users mailing list ceph-users@lists.ceph.com http://lists.ceph.com/listinfo.cgi/ceph-users-ceph.com
Re: [ceph-users] Clustering a few NAS into a Ceph cluster
Hi John, On 06/03/2015 11:38, John Spray wrote: On 04/03/2015 00:10, Loic Dachary wrote: Last week-end I discussed with a friend about a use case many of us thought about already: it would be cool to have a simple way to assemble Ceph aware NAS fresh from the store. I summarized the use case and interface we discussed here : https://wiki.ceph.com/Clustering_a_few_NAS_into_a_Ceph_cluster It is far from polished but I hope it will trigger some discussions. The best of comments would be: wait, that already exists at URL ;-) But if that's not the case, maybe we can improve it. I have thought about this occasionally too. The workflow on the link looks about right to me: it would perhaps be not-too-hard to try implementing the workflow as a command line python script, before later looking at bundling it up into something with a UI that would run on a your NAS platform of choice? That makes sense. There is a tentative implementation in shell at https://github.com/rrerolle/ceph-nas It's similar to what big enterprisey vendors try (and usually fail) to build, so that people can have these magic bricks of storage that click together. Building an Turnkey Integrated Enterprise Storage Appliance Platform is really hard to do in the general case of multiple networks/strong authentication/environment integration -- however in the simplified single-subnet domestic NAS case I think it's perfectly feasible. My selfish view of this is that I would be happy to buy three such NAS and plug them in my basement. It probably is also appealing to other people who are willing to have multiple machines running at home. There are not many of us, probably not enough for any vendor to care. Maybe small enterprises would be a more appealing market, with similar needs (scale, ease of use). If so maybe we'll eventually be able to actually buy such Ceph bricks in a store instead of assembling them manually. Cheers -- Loïc Dachary, Artisan Logiciel Libre signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature ___ ceph-users mailing list ceph-users@lists.ceph.com http://lists.ceph.com/listinfo.cgi/ceph-users-ceph.com
Re: [ceph-users] Clustering a few NAS into a Ceph cluster
On 04/03/2015 00:10, Loic Dachary wrote: Last week-end I discussed with a friend about a use case many of us thought about already: it would be cool to have a simple way to assemble Ceph aware NAS fresh from the store. I summarized the use case and interface we discussed here : https://wiki.ceph.com/Clustering_a_few_NAS_into_a_Ceph_cluster It is far from polished but I hope it will trigger some discussions. The best of comments would be: wait, that already exists at URL ;-) But if that's not the case, maybe we can improve it. I have thought about this occasionally too. The workflow on the link looks about right to me: it would perhaps be not-too-hard to try implementing the workflow as a command line python script, before later looking at bundling it up into something with a UI that would run on a your NAS platform of choice? It's similar to what big enterprisey vendors try (and usually fail) to build, so that people can have these magic bricks of storage that click together. Building an Turnkey Integrated Enterprise Storage Appliance Platform is really hard to do in the general case of multiple networks/strong authentication/environment integration -- however in the simplified single-subnet domestic NAS case I think it's perfectly feasible. Cheers, John ___ ceph-users mailing list ceph-users@lists.ceph.com http://lists.ceph.com/listinfo.cgi/ceph-users-ceph.com
[ceph-users] Clustering a few NAS into a Ceph cluster
Hi Ceph, Last week-end I discussed with a friend about a use case many of us thought about already: it would be cool to have a simple way to assemble Ceph aware NAS fresh from the store. I summarized the use case and interface we discussed here : https://wiki.ceph.com/Clustering_a_few_NAS_into_a_Ceph_cluster It is far from polished but I hope it will trigger some discussions. The best of comments would be: wait, that already exists at URL ;-) But if that's not the case, maybe we can improve it. Cheers -- Loïc Dachary, Artisan Logiciel Libre signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature ___ ceph-users mailing list ceph-users@lists.ceph.com http://lists.ceph.com/listinfo.cgi/ceph-users-ceph.com
