<div dir="ltr"><div>I hate to ask, but what were the original requirements? Was it NFS access with a distributed backend? Or was it just a Ceph replacement? What hardware is available? Will the data be backed up in some way?<br></div><div><br></div><div>People have some good suggestions. One I would like to throw into the mix is BeeGFS. It's easy to use and simple to set up. You could put a single BeeGFS client in front of the back-end (storage) and then NFS export the mount point? I haven't tried it, but in theory it should work.</div><div><br></div><div>Jeff</div><div><br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sun, Mar 28, 2021 at 5:24 PM James Taylor via Ale <<a href="mailto:ale@ale.org">ale@ale.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">Since SUSE bought Rancher, they are going all in on kubernetes as a focus.<br>
Now to place a bit of my ignorance on center stage.<br>
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I haven't looked into it too much, but what about Longhorn.<br>
It's advertised as designed for kubernetes persistent storage, but would it be useful in a non or mixed kubernetes environment?<br>
I suspect SUSE will have migration tools available to move from CEPH, if not already.<br>
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>>> Allen Beddingfield via Ale <<a href="mailto:ale@ale.org" target="_blank">ale@ale.org</a>> 3/26/2021 4:28 PM >>> <br>
Wondering if any of you have experience with distributed filesystems, such as CEPH, GlusterFS, MooseFS, etc...?<br>
We've been using SUSE's "SUSE Enterprise Storage" package, which is CEPH, packaged with a Salt installer, and their UI. Anyway, it worked well, but was sort of like using a cement block to smash a fly for our purposes. <br>
SUSE notified us yesterday that they are getting out of that business, and will EOL the product in two years. I'm glad they let us know BEFORE we renewed the maintenance in May.<br>
That really wasn't that big of a deal for us, because we were about to do a clean slate re-install/hardware refresh, anyway. <br>
Sooo.... <br>
I'm looking into MooseFS and GlusterFS at this point, as they are much simpler to deploy and manage (at least to me) compared with CEPH. Do any of you have experiences with these? Thoughts?<br>
The use case is to use CHEAP (think lots of servers full of 10TB SATA drives and 1.2TB SAS drives) hardware to share out big NFS (or native client) shares as temporary/scratch space, where performance isn't that important.<br>
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