We are looking at deploying a cloud to host our clients systems. I have been playing with ceph for a few weeks now and starting to get a good grasp and really like the project.
Here is a little background on what we are looking to do. I plan on deploying 2 independent ceph clusters in 2 different locations. We will be using incremental snapshots to keep the 2nd ceph cluster up-to-date, this will be our failover location in case of fire/emergency. We will have either 10GB or 40GB fiber between the two locations. I also plan on building the ceph cluster itself with a basic CentOS load unless others here think proxmox would be better (We are a centos shop for the most part and would like to keep proxmox strictly for virtualization purposes). Then we will be using some proxmox front ends to provide VM's.
I have one questions on the ceph setup itself.
1. Are you guys presenting a pool directly to proxmox
- Or are you creating a block device within the pool and presenting that to proxmox
2. If block device, do you create a individual block device for each VM, or run all VM's on a single block device?
Im still rapping my head around ceph as there is alot to it. I appreciate any input on the subject!
Here is a little background on what we are looking to do. I plan on deploying 2 independent ceph clusters in 2 different locations. We will be using incremental snapshots to keep the 2nd ceph cluster up-to-date, this will be our failover location in case of fire/emergency. We will have either 10GB or 40GB fiber between the two locations. I also plan on building the ceph cluster itself with a basic CentOS load unless others here think proxmox would be better (We are a centos shop for the most part and would like to keep proxmox strictly for virtualization purposes). Then we will be using some proxmox front ends to provide VM's.
I have one questions on the ceph setup itself.
1. Are you guys presenting a pool directly to proxmox
- Or are you creating a block device within the pool and presenting that to proxmox
2. If block device, do you create a individual block device for each VM, or run all VM's on a single block device?
Im still rapping my head around ceph as there is alot to it. I appreciate any input on the subject!