Yes, Ceph is good choice. Openstack Team is very intresting about it. And DreamHost is also trying the Ceph. <div>Just now, I think only Swift, Ceph, Sheepdog is the first choice in the list I made above. (I know some companys are using sheeldog as the storage in product env). </div>

<div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Nov 29, 2012 at 7:57 PM, JuanFra Rodriguez Cardoso <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:juanfra.rodriguez.cardoso@gmail.com" target="_blank">juanfra.rodriguez.cardoso@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 class="gmail_extra">Ceph has a bright future as OpenStack Storage backend. Although Ceph's guys do not recommend to use CephFS for production environments, Ceph RBD seems a reliable alternative to S3 in Glance and LVM in Cinder.</div>


<div class="gmail_extra">Links about this option (Ceph+Openstack):</div><div class="gmail_extra">    - Great Sebastian's post: <a href="http://www.sebastien-han.fr/blog/2012/06/10/introducing-ceph-to-openstack/" target="_blank">http://www.sebastien-han.fr/blog/2012/06/10/introducing-ceph-to-openstack/</a> <br>


    - <a href="http://ceph.com/docs/master/rbd/rbd-openstack/" target="_blank">http://ceph.com/docs/master/rbd/rbd-openstack/</a><br><br>Regards!</div><div class="gmail_extra">JuanFra.</div><div class="gmail_extra">    <br>

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2012/11/29 Lei Zhang <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:zhang.lei.fly@gmail.com" target="_blank">zhang.lei.fly@gmail.com</a>></span><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex">


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