[PVE-User] Ceph or Gluster

[Mohamed Sadok Ben Jazia]

Thank you Eneko,
I read in proxmox forum that distributed storage needs 10GBit or faster on
the local network and a dedicated network.
Could you detail your used infrastructure to see if it matches those
conditions?



On 22 April 2016 at 12:06, Eneko Lacunza <elacunza at binovo.es> wrote:

> Hi Mohamed,
>
> El 22/04/16 a las 12:42, Mohamed Sadok Ben Jazia escribió:
>
>> Hello list,
>> In order to set a high scalable proxmox infrastructure with a number of
>> clusters, i plan to use distributed storing system, for this i have some
>> questions.
>> 1- I have a choice between Ceph and Gluster, which is better for proxmox.
>>
> I have no experience with Gluster, Ceph has been great for our use.
>
>> 2- Is it better to install one of those systems on the nodes or on
>> separated servers.
>>
> Better on separated systems, but works quite well on the same systems if
> the load is ok. Proxmox Ceph Server integration is very nice and saves lots
> of work.
>
>> 3- Can this architecture realise a stable product, with VM and LXC
>> migration (not live migration), store backups and snapshots, store iso
>> files and lxc container templates.
>>
> In order to use Ceph for backups and ISO/templates, you'll have to use
> CephFS. It is considered experimental in current Ceph version in Proxmox
> (Hammer) but today a new Ceph LTS version has been released (Jewel), that
> marks CephFS stable and production-ready. I think this will be integrated
> in Proxmox shortly, developers are talking about this in the mailing list
> today.
>
> I use NFS for backups and ISO/templates. For our storage needs this is
> enough.
>
> Cheers
> Eneko
>
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