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Ceph is a free software storage platform designed to present object, block, and file storage from a single distributed computer cluster.

Ceph is a free software storage platform designed to present object, block, and file storage from a single distributed computer cluster. Ceph's main goals are to be completely distributed without a single point of failure, scalable to the exabyte level, and freely-available.

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OpenStack redundant shared storage backend solution

Which storage backends are recommended for OpenStack which allows live migration and shared storage? Is it NFS / Ceph / storage backend drivers to commercial storage solutions? Which of these is better? In VMware vSphere it's possible to use iSCSI…
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Error running ceph-deploy install

I have been following the following tutorial to setup ceph on CentOS https://wiki.centos.org/SpecialInterestGroup/Storage/ceph-Quickstart When I try to run ceph-deploy to install to my other nodes, I get the following error: [ceph-deploy@ceph-admin…
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Ceph hardware sizing calculator

I would like to calculate the Hardware sizing for a ceph cluster. There are so few references to the sizing, that I try to get these details here in the community. E.g. what shall i have depending on spindle drives (7.2k, 10k, 15k) SATA & SAS 6G…
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What's the best way to sync folders across 03 or more webservers?

I have 03 servers and I want to sync some folders across them. I'm using DRBD + OCFS2 for a year or so, but it doesn't support more than 02 servers right now. I read about GlusterFS and CEPH, but there are a lot of bad reviews about them related to…
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How exactly are Distributed File Systems used in cloud environment?

How exactly are Distributed File Systems used in cloud environment ? More precisely: Are live VMs images (or their filesystem) usually located in the DFS ? Are VMs usually used to run the backbone (actual code) of DFS structure ? Precise example…
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Backup solution for medium infrastructure with commodity hardware

I'm looking for recommendations for a backup solution for our Infrastructure. We have lots of old Hardware, which is not very fast but just laying around. We have like 20 Servers for backup with 8-16GB RAM, AMD FX4300 to FX 8350 and many different…
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