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[Patrick McGarry <patrick@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hey all,

Ceph community manager here.  Just to be clear, while a lot of OpenStack
implementations are "choosing Ceph," there are plenty that aren't.  That's
the beauty of OpenStack, especially as it relates to Cinder and Glance.
 It's very easy to plug in whatever makes the most sense for your
particular use case.

In fact, we'd love to see a similar abstracted approach on the object
storage side as well.  While Ceph supports the Swift API, there are many
other tools that might not.  We are huge fans of choice, and we'd love to
see the ability to easily plug options for object as well as block.

Hope that clears things up a bit and you are able to choose the tool that
best suits your needs.  Obviously we think Ceph is amazing, but we're all
FOSS heads and are pretty happy as long as you find an Open Source solution
that does what you need.

Shout if you have questions.



Best Regards,

Patrick McGarry
Director, Community || Inktank
http://ceph.com  ||  http://inktank.com
@scuttlemonkey || @ceph || @inktank


On Fri, Jul 12, 2013 at 2:26 AM, Huang Zhiteng <winston.d@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> 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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