Ceph
Rebuilding libvirt under CentOS 7.1 with RBD storage pool support
If you want to use CentOS 7.1 for your hypervisors with Apache CloudStack and Ceph’s RBD as Primary Storage you need to rebuild libvirt. CloudStack
April 29, 2015
If you want to use CentOS 7.1 for your hypervisors with Apache CloudStack and Ceph’s RBD as Primary Storage you need to rebuild libvirt. CloudStack
This week I’m testing a lot with CephFS and one of the things I never tried was re-exporting CephFS using NFS-Ganesha and libcephfs. NFS-Ganesha is
I’m a big fan of Ceph and IPv6, so I always try to deploy Ceph over IPv6 when possible. Ceph is the future, just like
At my hosting company PCextreme we are building a cloud offering based on Ceph and CloudStack. We call our cloud services Aurora. Our cloud services
I like to deploy Ceph clusters over IPv6. I actually think that’s the way forward. IPv4 is legacy just like iSCSI and NFS are. Last
Ceph’s RBD (RADOS Block Device) is just a thin wrapper on top of RADOS, the object store of Ceph. It stripes (by default) over 4MB
So you might wonder: Why do I need to make a backup of my Ceph monitors? I have multiple monitors. That’s true, but would you
As of Ceph version 0.67 (Dumpling) the Ceph Object Gateway aka RADOS Gateway supports regions. This allows you to create a geo-replicated Amazon S3 compatible
When you want to use Ceph as Primary Storage in Apache CloudStack you need a recent version of libvirt with RBD storage pool support enabled.
One of the unique features of Ceph is that it can be build without any Single Point of Failure. No single machine will take your
