Ceph-like object interface for ScaleIO?

Question

Hi all, I've been a Ceph user for quite some time. More specifically, we've been using it as an object storage on our production servers, by storing named objects on RADOS directly from userspace (using librados and not the Ceph Gateway). Some colleagues of mine have suggested to test ScaleIO. I've created a ScaleIO cluster, added some volumes and did block I/O on them, via the exposed block device by the SDC. It works fairly well but, what we actually need is an object interface to ScaleIO. Does anyone know if there is any library, like the Ceph-equivalent librados, that can be used to write objects to a ScaleIO cluster? Thanks, Alex

Alex_Pyrgiotis · Accepted Answer

Ok, I believe it's clear that ScaleIO does not have any object interface and ECS is the way to go. I have some questions for this too, but I'll redirect them to the ECS forum. Thank you.

RafaelNovo · Answer

You can deploy a software-ony ECS on same nodes as ScaleIO

Alex_Pyrgiotis · Answer

Thanks for the heads-up about ECS. I've read the technical white paper

about it and it seems that it has the same high-level concepts as

ScaleIO, namely scalable performance, internal replication and support

for commodity hardware.

Since ECS seems like a drop-in solution on its own, what would be the

added benefit of installing it over ScaleIO, instead of over common, local

block devices?

RafaelNovo · Answer

Actually... None :)

I just thought this thru after I sent the message. If you need object storage, you should go directly to ECS.

And BTW you can download it and use it for free with community support, same as ScaleIO.

PowerFlex

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