[ceph-users] Re: RBD mirroring, asking for clarification

2023-05-03 Thread Eugen Block
Hi, the question is if both sites are used as primary clusters from different clients or if it's for disaster recovery only (site1 fails, make site2 primary). If both clusters are used independently with different clients I would prefer to separate the pools, so this option: PoolA

[ceph-users] Re: RBD mirroring, asking for clarification

2023-05-03 Thread wodel youchi
Hi, The goal is to sync some VMs from site1 - to - site2 and vice-versa sync some VMs in the other way. I am thinking of using rdb mirroring for that. But I have little experience with Ceph management. I am searching for the best way to do that. I could create two pools on each site, and cross

[ceph-users] Re: RBD mirroring, asking for clarification

2023-05-03 Thread Eugen Block
Hi, just to clarify, you mean in addition to the rbd mirroring you want to have another sync of different VMs between those clusters (potentially within the same pools) or are you looking for one option only? Please clarify. Anyway, I would use dedicated pools for rbd mirroring and then

[ceph-users] Re: RBD mirroring, asking for clarification

2023-05-03 Thread wodel youchi
Hi, Thanks I am trying to find out what is the best way to synchronize VMS between two HCI Proxmox clusters. Each cluster will contain 3 compute/storage nodes and each node will contain 4 nvme osd disks. There will be a 10gbs link between the two platforms. The idea is to be able to sync VMS

[ceph-users] Re: RBD mirroring, asking for clarification

2023-05-02 Thread Eugen Block
Hi, while your assumptions are correct (you can use the rest of the pool for other non-mirrored images), at least I'm not aware of any limitations, can I ask for the motivation behind this question? Mixing different use-cases doesn't seem like a good idea to me. There's always a chance