>From what I've read there won’t be support for Ceph in Creedence (Xenserver 6.5) but it is on the cards for the following release (as should NFSv4 and a Centos 7 dom0). There's a blog post from Tim Mackey at: http://xenserver.org/discuss-virtualization/virtualization-blog/entry/beyond-creedence-xenserver-2015-planning.html
and a Youtube video with a few updates here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3JFUkEfpXaQ All looks promising but I'm impatient :-( -----Original Message----- From: Andrija Panic [mailto:andrija.pa...@gmail.com] Sent: 24 November 2014 15:08 To: users@cloudstack.apache.org Subject: Re: Xenserver and CEPH ? THx Vadim - yes, I'm already using KVM with ceph for some time - works fine more or less :) thx On 24 November 2014 at 15:52, Vadim Kimlaychuk <vadim.kimlayc...@elion.ee> wrote: > XenServer 6.5 (or 7.0) is not released yet. You can download alpha of > next release and try it, but it is definately not for production. I > haven't personally tried it because Cloudstack does not support RBD > storage type for XenServer yet. So you are absolutely right -- first > we need to wait for XenServer to release then we need to wait for > Cloudstack to implement those changes at backend. > > I have used Ceph with KVM hypervisor for a short while. There were > some points that I was not aware, but in general it worked well. > > Vadim. > > -----Original Message----- > From: Andrija Panic [mailto:andrija.pa...@gmail.com] > Sent: Monday, November 24, 2014 4:22 PM > To: users@cloudstack.apache.org > Subject: Re: Xenserver and CEPH ? > > HI Vadim, thanks for info. That is what I understood = but the new > XenServer 6.5 or whatever the name, shoudl be using kernel 3.10.x for > dom0, so I guess even after that is supported, we will need to wait > some time for the CloudStack implementation on this ? > > Thanks anyway > > On 24 November 2014 at 15:00, Vadim Kimlaychuk > <vadim.kimlayc...@elion.ee> > wrote: > > > Hi Andrija, > > > > For XenServer 6.2 it is not possible yet. Look for supported > > SR-s > > here: > > > http://docs.vmd.citrix.com/XenServer/6.2.0/1.0/en_gb/reference.html#ck > _reference_storage_repository_types > > Somewhere in internet I saw information that RBD support is > > scheduled for the next major XenServer release. Can't find the link > > right away. > > The problem connected to Ceph + RBD as primary storage for > > XenServer is old dom0 kernel that does not allow RBD storage type. > > > > Regards, > > > > Vadim. > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Andrija Panic [mailto:andrija.pa...@gmail.com] > > Sent: Monday, November 24, 2014 2:06 PM > > To: users@cloudstack.apache.org > > Subject: Xenserver and CEPH ? > > > > Hi guys, > > > > anyone running ZenServer with CEPH as primary storage ? > > I read some info that there is support for CEPH inside XenServer > > from last year - but since I never actually tried this - thus the > > question. > > > > Thanks, > > > > -- > > > > Andrija Panić > > > > > > -- > > Andrija Panić > -- Andrija Panić
