On Fri, Sep 20, 2019 at 8:55 PM Gesiel Galvão Bernardes
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>
> Hi,
> I'm testing Ceph with Vmware, using Ceph-iscsi gateway. I reading 
> documentation*  and have doubts some points:
>
> - If I understanded, in general terms, for each VMFS datastore in VMware will 
> match the an RBD image. (consequently in an RBD image I will possible have 
> many VMWare disks). Its correct?

yes

> - In documentation is this: "gwcli requires a pool with the name rbd, so it 
> can store metadata like the iSCSI configuration". In part 4 of 
> "Configuration", have: "Add a RBD image with the name disk_1 in the pool 
> rbd". In this part, the use of "rbd" pool is a example and I could use any 
> pool for storage of image, or the pool should be "rbd"?

that's just an example, yes

> Resuming: gwcli require "rbd" pool for metadata and I could use any pool for 
> image, or i will use just "rbd pool" for storage image and metadata?

you can even store the metadata elsewhere in newer versions, see
options in the config file

> - How much memory ceph-iscsi use? Which  is a good number of RAM?

since it can't cache anything: virtually nothing

>
> Regards
> Gesiel
>
> * https://docs.ceph.com/docs/master/rbd/iscsi-target-cli/
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