first impressions on petaSAN 2.0
Ste
125 Posts
April 9, 2018, 2:45 pmQuote from Ste on April 9, 2018, 2:45 pmLast month I tried to setup a test Ceph cluster on some old hardware, but I didn's succeed because the linux installer (CentOS7) couldn't find the controller and the attached disks. Then I did it again in a VM environment, and I was able to get a Ceph cluster running and export volumes to other linux systems, but not to the Microsoft world (I found around some hints but none worked for me) nor to the VMWare cluster. I failed also in setting up an iSCSI gateway for Ceph, as I couldn't find the necessary packages and kernel.
Then I read about PetaSAN, I read the docs and installed a 3-nodes test cluster. The process was really straightforward and well described. As a first good news, I was able to use the same old HW (32 bit) that was not compatible with Ceph on Centos7. The second great achievement is that with an iSCSI SAN I can easily prepare volumes for all linux, microsoft and vmware servers. That's great !!
Thanks for this solution, it is exactly what I have been looking for for months. 🙂 I think it fully achieves its goals of being "Easy to use", open source and scalable. In the next future I will try to test also its reliability, as my final idea is to deploy here a production SAN based on dedicated new hardware and PetaSAN.
Thanks again, Ste.
Last month I tried to setup a test Ceph cluster on some old hardware, but I didn's succeed because the linux installer (CentOS7) couldn't find the controller and the attached disks. Then I did it again in a VM environment, and I was able to get a Ceph cluster running and export volumes to other linux systems, but not to the Microsoft world (I found around some hints but none worked for me) nor to the VMWare cluster. I failed also in setting up an iSCSI gateway for Ceph, as I couldn't find the necessary packages and kernel.
Then I read about PetaSAN, I read the docs and installed a 3-nodes test cluster. The process was really straightforward and well described. As a first good news, I was able to use the same old HW (32 bit) that was not compatible with Ceph on Centos7. The second great achievement is that with an iSCSI SAN I can easily prepare volumes for all linux, microsoft and vmware servers. That's great !!
Thanks for this solution, it is exactly what I have been looking for for months. 🙂 I think it fully achieves its goals of being "Easy to use", open source and scalable. In the next future I will try to test also its reliability, as my final idea is to deploy here a production SAN based on dedicated new hardware and PetaSAN.
Thanks again, Ste.
Last edited on April 9, 2018, 2:50 pm by Ste · #1
admin
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April 10, 2018, 2:35 pmQuote from admin on April 10, 2018, 2:35 pmNice to hear ..Thanks a lot 🙂
Nice to hear ..Thanks a lot 🙂
first impressions on petaSAN 2.0
Ste
125 Posts
Quote from Ste on April 9, 2018, 2:45 pmLast month I tried to setup a test Ceph cluster on some old hardware, but I didn's succeed because the linux installer (CentOS7) couldn't find the controller and the attached disks. Then I did it again in a VM environment, and I was able to get a Ceph cluster running and export volumes to other linux systems, but not to the Microsoft world (I found around some hints but none worked for me) nor to the VMWare cluster. I failed also in setting up an iSCSI gateway for Ceph, as I couldn't find the necessary packages and kernel.
Then I read about PetaSAN, I read the docs and installed a 3-nodes test cluster. The process was really straightforward and well described. As a first good news, I was able to use the same old HW (32 bit) that was not compatible with Ceph on Centos7. The second great achievement is that with an iSCSI SAN I can easily prepare volumes for all linux, microsoft and vmware servers. That's great !!
Thanks for this solution, it is exactly what I have been looking for for months. 🙂 I think it fully achieves its goals of being "Easy to use", open source and scalable. In the next future I will try to test also its reliability, as my final idea is to deploy here a production SAN based on dedicated new hardware and PetaSAN.
Thanks again, Ste.
Last month I tried to setup a test Ceph cluster on some old hardware, but I didn's succeed because the linux installer (CentOS7) couldn't find the controller and the attached disks. Then I did it again in a VM environment, and I was able to get a Ceph cluster running and export volumes to other linux systems, but not to the Microsoft world (I found around some hints but none worked for me) nor to the VMWare cluster. I failed also in setting up an iSCSI gateway for Ceph, as I couldn't find the necessary packages and kernel.
Then I read about PetaSAN, I read the docs and installed a 3-nodes test cluster. The process was really straightforward and well described. As a first good news, I was able to use the same old HW (32 bit) that was not compatible with Ceph on Centos7. The second great achievement is that with an iSCSI SAN I can easily prepare volumes for all linux, microsoft and vmware servers. That's great !!
Thanks for this solution, it is exactly what I have been looking for for months. 🙂 I think it fully achieves its goals of being "Easy to use", open source and scalable. In the next future I will try to test also its reliability, as my final idea is to deploy here a production SAN based on dedicated new hardware and PetaSAN.
Thanks again, Ste.
admin
2,930 Posts
Quote from admin on April 10, 2018, 2:35 pmNice to hear ..Thanks a lot 🙂
Nice to hear ..Thanks a lot 🙂