Unfortunately our shop is heavily in bed with the Foreman. OpenStack, OpenNebula, CloudStack, oVirt-engine/node aren't options for us at this time.
Ubuntu was dismissed by our team so thats not an option either. On Fri, Dec 6, 2013 at 10:54 AM, Campbell, Bill < bcampb...@axcess-financial.com> wrote: > I think the version of Libvirt included with RHEL/CentOS supports RBD > storage (but not pools), so outside of compiling a newer version not sure > there can be anything else done aside from waiting for repo additions/newer > versions of the distro. > > Not sure what your scenario is, but this is the exact reason we switched > our underlying virtualization infrastructure to Ubuntu. Their cloud > archive PPA has updated packages for QEMU/KVM, Libvirt, Open vSwitch, etc. > that are backported for LTS releases, and is something I personally think > RHEL is WAY behind the curve on (getting better with their RDO initiative > though). We didn't like consuming resources validating that updated builds > of QEMU/Libvirt were going to cause problems and just allocated those > resources to learning the Ubuntu environment. > > As far as streamlining management on top of that, you have some options > (outside of virt-manager, which has no native support for RBD IIRC) like > Proxmox (which is an entire solution like ESXi/Hyper-V using KVM) or > something like OpenStack or OpenNebula (we use OpenNebula). Beats having > to edit domains by hand. ;-) > > ------------------------------ > *From: *"Chris C" <mazzy...@gmail.com> > *To: *"Dan van der Ster" <d...@vanderster.com> > *Cc: *ceph-users@lists.ceph.com > *Sent: *Friday, December 6, 2013 10:37:03 AM > *Subject: *Re: [ceph-users] centos6.4 + libvirt + qemu + rbd/ceph > > > Dan, > I found the thread but it looks like another dead end :( > > /Chris C > > > On Fri, Dec 6, 2013 at 4:46 AM, Dan van der Ster <d...@vanderster.com>wrote: > >> See thread a couple days ago "[ceph-users] qemu-kvm packages for centos" >> >> On Thu, Dec 5, 2013 at 10:44 PM, Chris C <mazzy...@gmail.com> wrote: >> > I've been working on getting this setup working. I have virtual >> machines >> > working using rbd based images by editing the domain directly. >> > >> > Is there any way to make the creation process better? We are hoping to >> be >> > able to use a virsh pool using the rbd driver but it appears that >> Redhat has >> > not compiled libvirt with rbd support. >> > >> > Thought? >> > >> > Thanks, >> > /Chris C >> > >> > _______________________________________________ >> > ceph-users mailing list >> > ceph-users@lists.ceph.com >> > http://lists.ceph.com/listinfo.cgi/ceph-users-ceph.com >> > >> > > > _______________________________________________ > ceph-users mailing list > ceph-users@lists.ceph.com > http://lists.ceph.com/listinfo.cgi/ceph-users-ceph.com > > > *NOTICE: Protect the information in this message in accordance with the > company's security policies. If you received this message in error, > immediately notify the sender and destroy all copies.* > >
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