Seem's to me that my comment didn't get through to the list, for some
reason. http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/xen/api/205026?page=last atleast
it's not present there. Is there a reason for this?

I have

On 20 April 2011 11:25, Tim Titley <[email protected]> wrote:

>  Sounds interesting and definately worth looking into. You would not have
> the advantage of snapshots like you do with an LVM type solution, but it may
> pay off in some instances from a performance perspective.
>
> I've never used InfiniBand, but I think you've just convinced me to go buy
> a few cheap adaptors and have a little play.
>
> On 19/04/11 23:39, Henrik Andersson wrote:
>
> Now that VastSky has been reported to be on hiatus atleast, I'dd like to
> propose GlusterFS as a candidate. It is well tested and actively developed
> and maintained project. I'm personally really interested in "RDMA version".
> It should provide really low latencies and since 40Gbit InfiniBand is a
> bargain compared to 10GbE, there should be more than enough throughput
> availeable.
>
>  This would require IB support on XCP but my thinking is, it would be
> beneficial in many other ways. For example I would imagine RDMA could be
> used with live migrates.
>
>  -Henrik Andersson
>
> On 20 April 2011 01:10, Tim Titley <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> Has anyone considered a replacement for the vastsky storage backend now
>> that the project is officially dead (at least for now)?
>>
>> I have been looking at Ceph ( http://ceph.newdream.net/ ). A suggestion
>> to someone so inclined to do something about it, may be to use the Rados
>> block device (RBD) and put an LVM storage group on it, which would require
>> modification of the current LVM storage manager code - I assume similar to
>> LVMOISCSI.
>>
>> This would provide scalable, redundant storage at what I assume would be
>> reasonable performance since the data can be striped across many storage
>> nodes.
>>
>> Development seems reasonably active and although the project is not
>> officially production quality yet, it is part of the Linux kernel which
>> looks promising, as does the news that they will be providing commercial
>> support.
>>
>> The only downside is that RBD requires a 2.6.37 kernel. For those "in the
>> know" - how long will it be before this kernel makes it to XCP - considering
>> that this vanilla kernel supposedly works in dom0 (I have yet to get it
>> working)?
>>
>> Any thoughts?
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> Tim
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