Native CEPH access from non-Linux OSes

[DynFi User]

I wanted to know what was the status of non-Linux OSes support for direct access to native I/O paths of Ceph with RADOS.

I am trying to evaluate which existing program would allow a direct CEPH cluster access in order to avoid using iSCSI or CIFS gateways.
Idea is to use such programs to grant direct access to the cluster from non-Linux OSes such as :

• Windows
• Mac OS
• FreeBSD

I have found this : https://documentation.suse.com/ses/7/html/ses-all/windows-ses.html

So there seems to be a way…


Alternatively and considering the non-mature stage of these program (if they ever exist), what's the suggested way to solve this access issue for these OSes ?


Thanks for taking time to reply.

 

[Alwin Antreich]

Alternatively and considering the non-mature stage of these program (if they ever exist), what's the suggested way to solve this access issue for these OSes ?

The iSCSI gateway. VMware is still doing the same.

FreeBSD cluster deployment, so the client portion should be covered as well.
https://docs.ceph.com/en/latest/install/manual-freebsd-deployment/

MacOS, I don't think they have any plans to support Ceph.

Windows, as you said non-mature. That would really make the news.