<div dir="ltr"><div><div><div>Specifically to the point of Swift backend for Cinder...<br></div><div><br>From my understanding Swift was never intending to provide
block-device abstractions the way that Ceph does. That's not to say that
it couldn't, but it doesn't today.<br><br></div>I wonder if you might be targeting
the wrong audience by going to the Cinder community for the Swift backed
volume support in Cinder. Since Cinder is not
in the datapath it cannot provide the block level abstractions necessary for Swift objects to be treated as block devices.<br><br></div><div>If you're really interested in this, you might want to reach out to the Swift community to see if there is an interest in adding block support. After some set of block device abstraction is available for Swift then a driver can be written for Cinder which exposes the block abstractions.<br><br></div>- Billy<br></div><br><div><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Mar 18, 2015 at 4:43 PM John Griffith <<a href="mailto:john.griffith8@gmail.com">john.griffith8@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Mar 18, 2015 at 12:25 PM, Adam Lawson <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:alawson@aqorn.com" target="_blank">alawson@aqorn.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">The aim is cloud storage that isn't affected by a host failure and major players who deploy hyper-scaling clouds architect them to prevent that from happening. To me that's cloud 101. Physical machine goes down, data disappears, VM's using it fail and folks scratch their head and ask this was in the cloud right? That's the indication of a service failure, not a feature.</div></blockquote></div></div></div><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote"><div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:monospace,monospace;display:inline"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:monospace,monospace;display:inline">Yeah, the idea of an auto-evacuate is def nice, and I know there's progress there just maybe not as far along as some would like. I'm far from a domain expert there though so I can't say much, other than I keep beating the drum that that doesn't require shared storage.<br><br>Also, I would argue depending on who you ask, cloud 101 actually says; "The Instance puked, auto-spin up another one and get on wit it". I'm certainly not arguing your points, just noting their are multiple views on this. Also.<br></div> </div></div></div></div><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div><br><div>I'm just a very big proponent of cloud arch that provides a seamless abstraction between the service and the hardware. Ceph and DRDB are decent enough. But tying data access to a single host by design is a mistake IMHO so I'm asking why we do things the way we do and whether that's the way it's always going to be.</div></div></div></blockquote></div></div></div><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote"><div><br><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:monospace,monospace;display:inline">So others have/will chime in here... one thing I think is kinda missing in the statement above is the "single host", that's actually the whole point of Ceph and other vendor driven clustered storage technologies out there. There's a ton to choose from at this point, open source as well as proprietary and a lot of them are really really good. This is also very much what DRBD aims to solve for you. You're not tying data access to a single host/node, that's kinda the whole point. <br><br>Granted in the case of DRBD we've still got a ways to go and something we haven't even scratched the surface on much is virtual/shared IP's for targets but we're getting there albeit slowly (there are folks who are doing this already but haven't contributed their work back upstream), so in that case yes we still have a shortcoming in that if the node that's acting as your target server goes down you're kinda hosed. </div> </div></div></div></div><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div><div><br></div><div>Of course this bumps into the question whether all apps hosted in the cloud should be cloud aware or whether the cloud should have some tolerance for legacy apps that are not written that way.</div></div></div></blockquote></div></div></div><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote"><div><br><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:monospace,monospace;display:inline">I've always felt "it depends". I think you should be able to do both honestly (and IMHO you can currently), but if you want to take full advantage of everything that's offered in an OpenStack context at least, the best way to do that is to design and build with failure and dynamic provisioning in mind.</div> </div></div></div></div><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div><div><br></div></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><span><br clear="all"><div><div><div dir="ltr"><div><font><div style="font-family:arial;font-size:small"><b><i><br>Adam Lawson</i></b></div><div><font><font size="1" color="#666666"><div style="font-family:arial"><br></div><div style="font-family:arial;font-size:small">AQORN, Inc.</div><div style="font-family:arial;font-size:small">427 North Tatnall Street</div><div style="font-family:arial;font-size:small">Ste. 58461</div><div style="font-family:arial;font-size:small">Wilmington, Delaware 19801-2230</div><div style="font-family:arial;font-size:small">Toll-free: (844) 4-AQORN-NOW ext. 101</div><div style="font-family:arial;font-size:small">International: <a href="tel:%2B1%20302-387-4660" value="+13023874660" target="_blank">+1 302-387-4660</a></div></font><font size="1" color="#666666"><div style="font-family:arial;font-size:small">Direct: <a href="tel:%2B1%20916-246-2072" value="+19162462072" target="_blank">+1 916-246-2072</a></div></font></font></div></font></div><div style="font-family:arial;font-size:small"><img src="http://www.aqorn.com/images/logo.png" height="39" width="96"><br></div></div></div></div></span></div></blockquote></div></div></div><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote"><div><br><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:monospace,monospace;display:inline">Just my 2 cents, hope it's helpful.<br><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:monospace,monospace;display:inline">John</div> </div></div></div></div><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div class="gmail_extra"><span><div><div><div dir="ltr"><div style="font-family:arial;font-size:small"></div></div></div></div>
<br></span><div><div><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Mar 18, 2015 at 10:59 AM, Duncan Thomas <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:duncan.thomas@gmail.com" target="_blank">duncan.thomas@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">I'm not sure of any particular benefit to trying to run cinder volumes over swift, and I'm a little confused by the aim - you'd do better to use something closer to purpose designed for the job if you want software fault tolerant block storage - ceph and drdb are the two open-source options I know of.</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div><div>On 18 March 2015 at 19:40, Adam Lawson <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:alawson@aqorn.com" target="_blank">alawson@aqorn.com</a>></span> wrote:<br></div></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div><div><div dir="ltr">Hi everyone,<div><br></div><div>Got some questions for whether certain use cases have been addressed and if so, where things are at. A few things I find particularly interesting:<div><ul><li>Automatic Nova evacuation for VM's using shared storage<br></li><li>Using Swift as a back-end for Cinder</li></ul></div><div>I know we discussed Nova evacuate last year with some dialog leading into the Paris Operator Summit and there were valid unknowns around what would be required to constitute a host being "down", by what logic that would be calculated and what would be required to initiate the move and which project should own the code to make it happen. Just wondering where we are with that.</div><div><br></div><div>On a separate note, Ceph has the ability to act as a back-end for Cinder, Swift does not. Perhaps there are performance trade-offs to consider but I'm a big fan of service plane abstraction and what I'm not a fan of is tying data to physical hardware. The fact this continues to be the case with Cinder troubles me.</div><div><br></div><div>So a question; are these being addressed somewhere in some context? I admittedly don't want to distract momentum on the Nova/Cinder teams, but I am curious if these exist (or conflict) with our current infrastructure blueprints?</div><div><br><div>Mahalo,</div><div>Adam<br clear="all"><div><div><div dir="ltr"><div><font><div style="font-family:arial;font-size:small"><b><i><br>Adam Lawson</i></b></div><div><font><font size="1" color="#666666"><div style="font-family:arial"><br></div><div style="font-family:arial;font-size:small">AQORN, Inc.</div><div style="font-family:arial;font-size:small">427 North Tatnall Street</div><div style="font-family:arial;font-size:small">Ste. 58461</div><div style="font-family:arial;font-size:small">Wilmington, Delaware 19801-2230</div><div style="font-family:arial;font-size:small">Toll-free: (844) 4-AQORN-NOW ext. 101</div><div style="font-family:arial;font-size:small">International: <a href="tel:%2B1%20302-387-4660" value="+13023874660" target="_blank">+1 302-387-4660</a></div></font><font size="1" color="#666666"><div style="font-family:arial;font-size:small">Direct: <a href="tel:%2B1%20916-246-2072" value="+19162462072" target="_blank">+1 916-246-2072</a></div></font></font></div></font></div><div style="font-family:arial;font-size:small"><img src="http://www.aqorn.com/images/logo.png" height="39" width="96"><br></div></div></div></div>
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