Hi All,
From what I have read on this forum, user mir is an expert on zfs and Wasim (Symcon) is an expert on ceph.
According to mir, ZFS is faster than ceph, where as ceph provides clustering option and ZFS does not (Sure, ZFS clustering option can be procured but is costly).
What would be an ideal solution out of the two technologies, if storage clustering is not needed in a small to medium proxmox cluster.
The main goal is to have a storage solution that supports multiple drive redundancy/failure and hot-swap option.
I know both solutions support this and both solution does not require hardware raid setup and can be installed on commodity hardware.
ZFS can be used to create a software raid (raid-z for example) and ceph provides drive redundancy without any raid setup.
The final decision should based on the following:
Thanks in advance.
From what I have read on this forum, user mir is an expert on zfs and Wasim (Symcon) is an expert on ceph.
According to mir, ZFS is faster than ceph, where as ceph provides clustering option and ZFS does not (Sure, ZFS clustering option can be procured but is costly).
What would be an ideal solution out of the two technologies, if storage clustering is not needed in a small to medium proxmox cluster.
The main goal is to have a storage solution that supports multiple drive redundancy/failure and hot-swap option.
I know both solutions support this and both solution does not require hardware raid setup and can be installed on commodity hardware.
ZFS can be used to create a software raid (raid-z for example) and ceph provides drive redundancy without any raid setup.
The final decision should based on the following:
- Once setup, should run flawlessly.
- During drive failure, should be quick and easy to fix.
- The performance should be as good as (if not better) than ISCSI LVM storage. (A plus is with NFS, or RDB is that openvz templates and containers+ KVM Images + ISO and backups and qcow2 file fromat can also be part of the storage infrastructure)
- Should be able to expand the existing storage by simply adding more disks.
- Reduing complexity and enhancing ease of setup and operation.
Thanks in advance.
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