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PetaSAN 2.5.0 released.

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Hi all,

happy to announce PetaSAN 2.5.0.

New Features:
  • Scalable active/active CIFS/SMB shares with Active Directory authentication.
  • Central Ceph configuration using monitor db with predefined categories.
  • NUMA pinning.
  • Different interface configuration based on node role.
  • Single backend network
  • OSD failure report, clickable from the dashboard.
  • Ceph 14.2.7 latest stable.

Notes:

-For online upgrades refer to Online Upgrade Guide.

-For copying large files using CIFS/SMB shares,we recommend using Microsoft robocopy tool

For screenshots, click here

Hi admin

Is creating a partition for sharing via CIFS / SMB still using rbd or cephfs?
Is the limit for partition creation still 100TB?
Can we extend the partition over 100TB?

it is using cephfs. the limit is determined by OSD capacity, it will grow as you add OSDs.

the 100 TB is current limit per iSCSI disk/lun, there is overhead of disk size to perform snapshots and deletions, what practical size do you think it should be ?

so currently petasan will have cephfs and ceph rdb when installed?
The use of SMB and SCSI is separate.
I want to use smb to share 500TB partition for windows machines? So can it be done?

it supports creation of both rbd and cephfs pools.

you can also create default pools for both while deploying (default choice) to get you started, but for production it is better to create your own pools to specify placement rules..etc.

you can create 500 TB shares if you add OSDs.

Do you have any instructions on connecting clients to cephfs?

If you refer to Windows clients, they connect as a regular share.

If you mean linux clients to access cephs directly:

mount -t ceph ip1,ip2,ip3:/ /mnt/cephfs -o name=admin,mds_namespace=cephfs,secretfile=/etc/ceph/cephfs-key

ip1,ip2,ip3 ip of the 3 management nodes ( first 3 nodes)

mds_namespace=cephfs is the name of the filesystem in this case cephfs

/etc/ceph/cephfs-key needs to be copied from a PetaSAN CIFS server node

 

Hi admin,
Scalable active/active CIFS/SMB shares with Active Directory authentication is a new features of version 2.5.0.
Now i have cluster petasan, i want to share CIFS/SMB to windows server with active directory, but i can't find any tutorial on this.

Thanks

There is a small help in the quick start guide, we are also working on updating the admin guide.

It should be easy enough to figure if you spend a few minutes, basically you you start off by creating a filesystem (or use the dafault once created when you build the clusrer), you need to assign CIFS server roles to some nodes, in the CIFS settings page you need to input virtual ip range to assign to the CIFS servers (+ AD settings), then from the CIFS Shares page add shares.

 

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