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

 

Haomai, Zippy,

Do you have any actual link to share about where your impression is from?
I don't want to be the last to know that we _choose_ something.


On Thu, Jul 11, 2013 at 8:00 PM, Haomai Wang <haomai@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> 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:
>
>
>
>
> 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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Huang Zhiteng

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