Ceph IScsi initiator?

[Le PAH]

Hi folks,

I might need some storage space on a Windows server and my Ceph cluster currently has 110Tb available.

I'd like to expose this free space to the Windows server using the ceph-iscsi-cli as described in the official Ceph documentation.

Since it is based on a vanilla install of Ceph, on RHEL, I was wondering if any of you already tried to expose your storage following this tutorial?
Any advice will be appreciated

 

[Le PAH]

Said differently, would it be secure to add the Ceph repositories to a vanilla installation of Proxmox in order to access the binaries required (ceph-iscsi-cli) to expose the cluster to Windows clients?

 

[Alwin]

See here for our packaged ceph packages, these are taken from upstream and have some additional patches on top. Please keep in mind, our ceph packages are needed to get support (subscription) through us for Proxmox VE.
https://pve.proxmox.com/pve-docs/chapter-pveceph.html#pve_ceph_install

 

[Le PAH]

Hello,
after careful analysis, it seems impossible to expose the Ceph cluster to Windows in the current version of Proxmox as it requires to run a Luminous on top of a Linux kernel v4.17 which is not the production version of Proxmox at the time being.

 

[David Herselman]

You could now consider running Ceph's multipath (highly available) iSCSI gateways, herewith the thread:
https://forum.proxmox.com/threads/pve-6-3-with-ha-ceph-iscsi.81991/