I see that PVE 3.1 now has support for many types of shared storage. As of this moment, I count:
I also see that as of PVE 3.1, all of those *except* Sheepdog are available in the GUI. Yet sheepdog appears to be the simplest, most redundant (maybe only at scale?), and lowest-overhead option of the bunch. Is there something wrong with using sheepdog that I don't know about? (I don't care about OpenVZ containers at this point, only KVM.) I'm need to provision a 4-to-8 node cluster to begin with, all identical, presumably each one would be a sheepdog node. I'm not providing 99.999% uptime, but data loss would be very bad.
Is it possible to run glusterfs or ceph *on* the PVE nodes, like sheepdog?
(It should be possible to run containers on NFS mounted from a VM stored in sheepdog, if I suddenly decide I need containers. Ugly, but possible.)
Thanks,
-Adam Thompson
athompso@athompso.net
- iSCSI (both mounted and direct LUN)
- NFS
- Sheepdog
- GlusterFS (somehow different from NFS?)
- Ceph/RBD
I also see that as of PVE 3.1, all of those *except* Sheepdog are available in the GUI. Yet sheepdog appears to be the simplest, most redundant (maybe only at scale?), and lowest-overhead option of the bunch. Is there something wrong with using sheepdog that I don't know about? (I don't care about OpenVZ containers at this point, only KVM.) I'm need to provision a 4-to-8 node cluster to begin with, all identical, presumably each one would be a sheepdog node. I'm not providing 99.999% uptime, but data loss would be very bad.
Is it possible to run glusterfs or ceph *on* the PVE nodes, like sheepdog?
(It should be possible to run containers on NFS mounted from a VM stored in sheepdog, if I suddenly decide I need containers. Ugly, but possible.)
Thanks,
-Adam Thompson
athompso@athompso.net