Re: [ceph-users] RBD as backend for iSCSI SAN Targets

2014-04-01 Thread Jianing Yang
On Fri 28 Mar 2014 08:55:30 AM CST, Karol Kozubal wrote: Hi Jianing, Sorry for the late reply, I missed your contribution to the thread. Thank you for your response. I am still waiting for some of my hardware and will begin testing the new setup with firefly once it is available as a

Re: [ceph-users] RBD as backend for iSCSI SAN Targets

2014-04-01 Thread German Anders
-threads=16 --test=fileio --file-total-size=3G --file-test-mode=rndrw run sysbench --num-threads=16 --test=fileio --file-total-size=3G --file-test-mode=rndrw cleanup Thanks in advance, Best regards, German Anders --- Original message --- Asunto: Re: [ceph-users] RBD as backend

Re: [ceph-users] RBD as backend for iSCSI SAN Targets

2014-03-19 Thread Jianing Yang
Hi, Karol Here is something that I can share. We are running Ceph as an Exchange Backend via iSCSI. We currently host about 2000 mailboxes which is about 7 TB data overall. Our configuration is - Proxy Node (with tgt daemon) x 2 - Ceph Monitor x 3 (virtual machines) - Ceph OSD x 50 (SATA 7200rpm

[ceph-users] RBD as backend for iSCSI SAN Targets

2014-03-15 Thread Karol Kozubal
Hi Everyone, I am just wondering if any of you are running a ceph cluster with an iSCSI target front end? I know this isn’t available out of the box, unfortunately in one particular use case we are looking at providing iSCSI access and it's a necessity. I am liking the idea of having rbd

Re: [ceph-users] RBD as backend for iSCSI SAN Targets

2014-03-15 Thread Wido den Hollander
On 03/15/2014 04:11 PM, Karol Kozubal wrote: Hi Everyone, I am just wondering if any of you are running a ceph cluster with an iSCSI target front end? I know this isn’t available out of the box, unfortunately in one particular use case we are looking at providing iSCSI access and it's a

Re: [ceph-users] RBD as backend for iSCSI SAN Targets

2014-03-15 Thread Karol Kozubal
Hi Wido, I will have some new hardware for running tests in the next two weeks or so and will report my findings once I get a chance to run some tests. I will disable writeback on the target side as I will be attempting to configure an ssd caching pool of 24 ssd's with writeback for the main pool

Re: [ceph-users] RBD as backend for iSCSI SAN Targets

2014-03-15 Thread Wido den Hollander
On 03/15/2014 05:40 PM, Karol Kozubal wrote: Hi Wido, I will have some new hardware for running tests in the next two weeks or so and will report my findings once I get a chance to run some tests. I will disable writeback on the target side as I will be attempting to configure an ssd caching

Re: [ceph-users] RBD as backend for iSCSI SAN Targets

2014-03-15 Thread Karol Kozubal
I just re-read the documentation… It looks like its a proposed feature that is in development. I will have to adjust my test in consequence in that case. Any one out there have any ideas when this will be implemented? Or what the plans look like as of right now? On 2014-03-15, 1:17 PM, Karol

Re: [ceph-users] RBD as backend for iSCSI SAN Targets

2014-03-15 Thread Sage Weil
On Sat, 15 Mar 2014, Karol Kozubal wrote: I just re-read the documentation… It looks like its a proposed feature that is in development. I will have to adjust my test in consequence in that case. Any one out there have any ideas when this will be implemented? Or what the plans look like as