Cephfs usage as samba or something

[Zombie]

I am curios if you can point me in the right direction for this or if I am even looking for the right thing.

In short I have a ceph cluster with two different rule sets for hdd and sdd. I use my sdd pool to run my all my VMs and big work loads. Since I have transitioned half of my sas hdd to ssd, it leaves me with a good amount of storage for the hdd. I want to be able to use the hdd for mainly cephfs and be able to share it out to clients either samba or something they can access like a network drive (or something else if I’m off). So if that’s possible can you point me to a guide or give me some hints on how to go about that?



Ceph cluster was setup with proxmox and is not external to proxmox.

Thanks!

 

[aaron]

Depending on the clients, you could install Ceph(FS) on them and connect them to the ceph cluster.

The simpler way would most likely to have a VM which is placed on the HDD pool and have Samba running on it.

 

[Scot]

I think that might be be solution because it is simple! I will probably just place the hdd on the ct or vm and share it out on samba!

Thanks,
Zombie