Hi, Ariel, gentlemen, I have the same question but with regard to multipath. Is it possible to just export iSCSI target on each Ceph node and use a multipath on client side? Can it possibly lead to data inconsistency?
Regards, Vasily. On Fri, May 22, 2015 at 12:59 PM, Gerson Ariel <ar...@bisnis2030.com> wrote: > I apologize beforehand for not using more descriptive subject for my > question. > > > > On Fri, May 22, 2015 at 4:55 PM, Gerson Ariel <ar...@bisnis2030.com> > wrote: > >> Our hardware is like this, three identical servers with 8 osd disks, 1 >> ssd disk >> as journal, 1 for os, 32GB of ECC RAM, 4 GiB copper ethernet. We deploy >> this >> cluster since February 2015 and most of the the system load is not too >> great, >> lots of idle time. >> >> Right now we have a node that mounts rbd blocks and export them as nfs. It >> works quite well but at a cost of one extra node as bridge between storage >> client (vms) and storage provider cluster (ceph osd and mon). >> >> What I want to know is, is there any reason why I shouldn't mount rbd >> disks on >> one of the server, the ones that also runs OSD and MON daemons, and >> export them >> as nfs or iSCSI? Assuming that I already done my homework to make my >> setup >> highly available using pacemaker (eg. floating IP, iSCSI/NFS resource), >> isn't >> something like this would be better as it is more reliable? ie. I remove >> the >> middle-man node(s) so I only have to make sure about those ceph nodes and >> vm-hosts. >> >> Thank you >> > > > _______________________________________________ > ceph-users mailing list > ceph-users@lists.ceph.com > http://lists.ceph.com/listinfo.cgi/ceph-users-ceph.com > >
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