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Ceph-like object interface for ScaleIO?
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
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August 17th, 2015 07:00
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
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August 7th, 2015 03:00
You can deploy a software-ony ECS on same nodes as ScaleIO
Alex_Pyrgiotis
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August 17th, 2015 04:00
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
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August 17th, 2015 05:00
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.