How to use external storage clients in hyper-converged PVE/CEPH environment?

[Ney Barrozo]

Hi folks,

We're experimenting with PVE/CEPH in the lab, to see if it could handle our production environment (all discrete servers that we'll virtualize). The PVE/CEPH cluster is running fine on three nodes, but we have two external OracleDB servers (cluster) that we won't virtualize right away.
Is there a way for the PVE/CEPH clusters to provide HA block storage to the Oracle servers, so we don't need to have another storage server in the environment?

Thanks.

 

[Alwin]

Well. Check out our docs.
https://pve.proxmox.com/pve-docs/chapter-ha-manager.html

 

[t.lamprecht]

Is there a way for the PVE/CEPH clusters to provide HA block storage to the Oracle servers, so we don't need to have another storage server in the environment?

You can create a RBD (rados block device) and use that on any client you give access to, as long as it supports accessing a RBD.

 

[Ney Barrozo]

Thank you, t.lamprecht. I'll check on that.