Re: Using S3/Minio as the only secondary storage

2019-07-17 Thread Will Stevens
If Syed can't fill in the blanks sufficiently for you when you talk to him later today, let me know and I will set up a call and loop in the team on our side who have more details and we can walk through our experience and knowledge on the topic. Cheers, *Will Stevens* Chief Technology Officer c

Re: Using S3/Minio as the only secondary storage

2019-07-17 Thread Jean-Francois Nadeau
Thanks Will, I remember having the discussion with Pierre-Luc on his use of Swift for templates. I was curious about the differences on S3 vs Swift for SS since looking at the CS UI when it comes to setting up an S3 image store... the NFS staging is optional. And this make sense to me if your ob

Re: Using S3/Minio as the only secondary storage

2019-07-17 Thread Will Stevens
Hey JF, We use the Swift object store as the storage backend for secondary storage. I have not tried the S3 integration, but the last time I looked at the code for this (admittedly, a long time ago) the Swift and s3 logic was more intertwined than I liked. The CloudOps/cloud.ca team had to do a lo

Re: Using S3/Minio as the only secondary storage

2019-07-17 Thread Riepl, Gregor (SWISS TXT)
Hi Jean-François > I have always used NFS to install the SSVM templates and the install > script (cloud-install-sys-tmplt) only takes a mount point. How, if > possible, would I proceed with S3 only storage ? CloudStack doesn't support object storage as a backend for the secondary storage. You'd

Using S3/Minio as the only secondary storage

2019-07-16 Thread Jean-Francois Nadeau
Hello Everyone, I was wondering if it was common or even recommended to use an S3 compatible storage system as the only secondary storage provider ? The environment is 4.11.3.0 with KVM (Centos 7.6), and our tier1 storage solution also provides an S3 compatible object store (apparently Minio und