Can you just package your stuff for Ubuntu 16.04?
nefelim4ag
2 Posts
March 14, 2017, 4:30 pmQuote from nefelim4ag on March 14, 2017, 4:30 pmCan you just package your stuff for Ubuntu 16.04?
I just want more controllable way to deploy and control Ceph with iSCSI.
Thanks for you great work.
Can you just package your stuff for Ubuntu 16.04?
I just want more controllable way to deploy and control Ceph with iSCSI.
Thanks for you great work.
admin
2,930 Posts
March 15, 2017, 7:31 amQuote from admin on March 15, 2017, 7:31 amThanks very much for your encouraging words !
For control, you do have the option to use the command line in PetaSAN, either through remote ssh or via a node terminal ( alt + f1 ). You can prepare/activate osds, change the ceph config file parameters, tune kernel params like read ahead cache / io schedulers...it is all yours. We even included the ceph-deploy utility even though we do not use it ourselves in case someone needs to use it for deployment, we also included other cli tools for things like performance tuning for advanced users.
In terms of packaging, it is better to think of PetaSAN as a plug and play appliance with a specific purpose rather than some packages you add on top of a general purpose Linux distro that does many things. PetaSAN requires specific disk partitioning, custom SUSE kernel, custom Ceph and many other services and packages and the complexity is likely to increase in the future. Having said that, the root fs is Ubuntu 16.04 and you can install any package you want, for example all our developers have the basic PetaSAN 'appliance' beefed up with a full Ubuntu desktop and features, but it is better and easier to add Ubuntu packages to PetaSAN that make PetaSAN a package in Ubuntu 🙂
Thanks very much for your encouraging words !
For control, you do have the option to use the command line in PetaSAN, either through remote ssh or via a node terminal ( alt + f1 ). You can prepare/activate osds, change the ceph config file parameters, tune kernel params like read ahead cache / io schedulers...it is all yours. We even included the ceph-deploy utility even though we do not use it ourselves in case someone needs to use it for deployment, we also included other cli tools for things like performance tuning for advanced users.
In terms of packaging, it is better to think of PetaSAN as a plug and play appliance with a specific purpose rather than some packages you add on top of a general purpose Linux distro that does many things. PetaSAN requires specific disk partitioning, custom SUSE kernel, custom Ceph and many other services and packages and the complexity is likely to increase in the future. Having said that, the root fs is Ubuntu 16.04 and you can install any package you want, for example all our developers have the basic PetaSAN 'appliance' beefed up with a full Ubuntu desktop and features, but it is better and easier to add Ubuntu packages to PetaSAN that make PetaSAN a package in Ubuntu 🙂
Last edited on March 15, 2017, 7:34 am · #2
Can you just package your stuff for Ubuntu 16.04?
nefelim4ag
2 Posts
Quote from nefelim4ag on March 14, 2017, 4:30 pmCan you just package your stuff for Ubuntu 16.04?
I just want more controllable way to deploy and control Ceph with iSCSI.
Thanks for you great work.
Can you just package your stuff for Ubuntu 16.04?
I just want more controllable way to deploy and control Ceph with iSCSI.
Thanks for you great work.
admin
2,930 Posts
Quote from admin on March 15, 2017, 7:31 amThanks very much for your encouraging words !
For control, you do have the option to use the command line in PetaSAN, either through remote ssh or via a node terminal ( alt + f1 ). You can prepare/activate osds, change the ceph config file parameters, tune kernel params like read ahead cache / io schedulers...it is all yours. We even included the ceph-deploy utility even though we do not use it ourselves in case someone needs to use it for deployment, we also included other cli tools for things like performance tuning for advanced users.
In terms of packaging, it is better to think of PetaSAN as a plug and play appliance with a specific purpose rather than some packages you add on top of a general purpose Linux distro that does many things. PetaSAN requires specific disk partitioning, custom SUSE kernel, custom Ceph and many other services and packages and the complexity is likely to increase in the future. Having said that, the root fs is Ubuntu 16.04 and you can install any package you want, for example all our developers have the basic PetaSAN 'appliance' beefed up with a full Ubuntu desktop and features, but it is better and easier to add Ubuntu packages to PetaSAN that make PetaSAN a package in Ubuntu 🙂
Thanks very much for your encouraging words !
For control, you do have the option to use the command line in PetaSAN, either through remote ssh or via a node terminal ( alt + f1 ). You can prepare/activate osds, change the ceph config file parameters, tune kernel params like read ahead cache / io schedulers...it is all yours. We even included the ceph-deploy utility even though we do not use it ourselves in case someone needs to use it for deployment, we also included other cli tools for things like performance tuning for advanced users.
In terms of packaging, it is better to think of PetaSAN as a plug and play appliance with a specific purpose rather than some packages you add on top of a general purpose Linux distro that does many things. PetaSAN requires specific disk partitioning, custom SUSE kernel, custom Ceph and many other services and packages and the complexity is likely to increase in the future. Having said that, the root fs is Ubuntu 16.04 and you can install any package you want, for example all our developers have the basic PetaSAN 'appliance' beefed up with a full Ubuntu desktop and features, but it is better and easier to add Ubuntu packages to PetaSAN that make PetaSAN a package in Ubuntu 🙂