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Re: why did openstack choose ceph (and not glusterfs)

 

Hi,

I think the information "OpenStack choose Ceph" is from Ceph community,  we can often heard about correlative talks from
Ceph community and blogs.  There is a illusion that OpenStack decide to choose Ceph as backend.

Best regards,
Haomai Wang, UnitedStack Inc.

在 2013-7-12,上午8:32,John Griffith <john.griffith@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> 写道:

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> 
> 
> On Thu, Jul 11, 2013 at 6:27 PM, Tom Fifield <tom@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Community Manager here - just confirming - "OpenStack" has not "chosen Ceph". Not sure where that information is coming from - got a blog link so we can fix any confusion? :)
> 
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Tom
> 
> 
> On 12/07/13 10:23, Zippy Zeppoli wrote:
> Hello,
> I apologize if this email causes some kind of subjective ruckus, but
> frankly I don't care (sorry etiquette) since it will resolve a
> reasonable question that isn't clearly answered on the web.
> 
> Why did openstack choose ceph and not glusterfs. There doesn't seem to
> be a lot of (good) information on how/why to choose one over the other,
> and I'm sure most folks do a proof-of-concept to figure this out, but it
> doesn't seem like a lot of information has been shared on the matter.
> 
> That being said, OpenStack is a large open source project that has
> decided to use this storage platform (big decision). Why and how did the
> technical architects for OpenStack come to this decision (blog post
> would be awesome, wasn't able to find one Googling).
> 
> CheerZ
> 
> 
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> Hi Zippy,
> 
> To be clear, OpenStack doesn't really "choose" at all.  In terms of Cinder you have a choice, that could be the base LVM implementation, Ceph-RBD, Gluster or any choice from a long list of supported/integrated backend storage devices.
> 
> John
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