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From: Leo David <leoa...@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, May 27, 2018, 20:01
Subject: Re: [ovirt-users] External ceph storage
To: Luca 'remix_tj' Lorenzetto <lorenzetto.l...@gmail.com>


Indeed, you right. Will setup the gws while waiting for a maybe future
native ceph connection, which in my oppinion would bring a lot of power to
oVirt.

On Sun, May 27, 2018, 19:48 Luca 'remix_tj' Lorenzetto <
lorenzetto.l...@gmail.com> wrote:

> I think is the best option. Setting up a sma openstack setup only for it
> is not worth the hassle.
>
> Luca
>
> Il dom 27 mag 2018, 18:44 Leo David <leoa...@gmail.com> ha scritto:
>
>> Ok, so since i dont have openstack installed (which would put cinder
>> between ceph and ovirt ), the only option remains the iscsi gw...
>> Thank you very much !
>>
>> On Sun, May 27, 2018, 18:14 Luca 'remix_tj' Lorenzetto <
>> lorenzetto.l...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> No,
>>>
>>> The only way you have is to configure cinder to manage ceph pool or in
>>> alternative you have to deploy an iscsi gateway, no other ways are
>>> available at the moment.
>>>
>>> So you can't use rbd directly.
>>>
>>> Luca
>>>
>>> Il dom 27 mag 2018, 16:54 Leo David <leoa...@gmail.com> ha scritto:
>>>
>>>> Thank you Luca,
>>>> At the moment i would try the cinder storage provider, since we already
>>>> have a proxmox cluster directly connecting to ceph. The problem is that I
>>>> just could not find a straight way to do this.
>>>> ie: Specify the ceph monitors and ceph pool to connect to. Can oVirt
>>>> directly connect to ceph monitors ? How the configuration should be done if
>>>> so ?
>>>> Thank you very much !
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Sun, May 27, 2018, 17:20 Luca 'remix_tj' Lorenzetto <
>>>> lorenzetto.l...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Hello,
>>>>>
>>>>> Yes, using cinder or through iscsi gateway.
>>>>>
>>>>> For a simpler setup i suggest the second option.
>>>>>
>>>>> Luca
>>>>>
>>>>> Il dom 27 mag 2018, 16:08 Leo David <leoa...@gmail.com> ha scritto:
>>>>>
>>>>>> Hello everyone,
>>>>>> I am new to ovirt and very impressed of its features. I would like to
>>>>>> levereage on our existing ceph cluster to provide rbd images for vm hdds,
>>>>>> is this possible to achieve ?
>>>>>> Thank you very much !
>>>>>> Regards,
>>>>>> Leo
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