There is no Ceph plugin for VMware (and I think you need at least an Enterprise license for storage plugins, much $$$). The "VMware" way to do this without the plugin would be to have a VM running on every host serving RBD devices over iSCSI to the other VMs (the way their storage applicances work, maybe you could even re-use them somehow? I haven't used VMware in a while, so not sure if one can login to the appliance and customize it...). Nevertheless I think it's ugly, messy and is going to be even slower than Ceph by itself.
But you can always just use RBD client (kernel/userspace) in the VMs themselves, VMware has pretty fast networking so the overhead wouldn't be that large. Jan > On 08 Jul 2016, at 21:22, Oliver Dzombic <i...@ip-interactive.de> wrote: > > Hi, > > does anyone have experience how to connect vmware with ceph smart ? > > iSCSI multipath does not really worked well. > NFS could be, but i think thats just too much layers in between to have > some useable performance. > > Systems like ScaleIO have developed a vmware addon to talk with it. > > Is there something similar out there for ceph ? > > What are you using ? > > Thank you ! > > -- > Mit freundlichen Gruessen / Best regards > > Oliver Dzombic > IP-Interactive > > mailto:i...@ip-interactive.de > > Anschrift: > > IP Interactive UG ( haftungsbeschraenkt ) > Zum Sonnenberg 1-3 > 63571 Gelnhausen > > HRB 93402 beim Amtsgericht Hanau > Geschäftsführung: Oliver Dzombic > > Steuer Nr.: 35 236 3622 1 > UST ID: DE274086107 > > _______________________________________________ > 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
