So others have/will chime in here... one thing I think is kinda missing in
the statement above is the single host, that's actually the whole point
of Ceph and other vendor driven clustered storage technologies out there.
There's a ton to choose from at this point, open source as well as
Hi Adam,
Disclaimer: i work for a company interested in providing solutions based on
openstack, but this email should not be considered marketing/promotional
Regarding your second question Using Swift as a back-end for Cinder, we
already have a solution for this, a part of which is a Cinder
I'm not sure of any particular benefit to trying to run cinder volumes over
swift, and I'm a little confused by the aim - you'd do better to use
something closer to purpose designed for the job if you want software fault
tolerant block storage - ceph and drdb are the two open-source options I
know
On Wed, Mar 18, 2015 at 12:25 PM, Adam Lawson alaw...@aqorn.com wrote:
The aim is cloud storage that isn't affected by a host failure and major
players who deploy hyper-scaling clouds architect them to prevent that from
happening. To me that's cloud 101. Physical machine goes down, data
The aim is cloud storage that isn't affected by a host failure and major
players who deploy hyper-scaling clouds architect them to prevent that from
happening. To me that's cloud 101. Physical machine goes down, data
disappears, VM's using it fail and folks scratch their head and ask this
was in
Excerpts from Adam Lawson's message of 2015-03-18 11:25:37 -0700:
The aim is cloud storage that isn't affected by a host failure and major
players who deploy hyper-scaling clouds architect them to prevent that from
happening. To me that's cloud 101. Physical machine goes down, data
disappears,
