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On Wed, 2016-10-05 at 19:29 +0000, Fox, Kevin M wrote:
> Did you try it with jewel? If not, what version?
> 

>From Emperor up to Hammer, haven't upgraded since then.  I see that
there's a number of significant changes, some of the limitations we were
finding to be a problem may be gone now.

> Thanks,
> Kevin
> ________________________________________
> From: Xav Paice [xavpaice at gmail.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, October 05, 2016 12:12 PM
> To: George Mihaiescu
> Cc: OpenStack Operators
> Subject: Re: [Openstack-operators] Rados Gateway to Swift migration
> 
> On Wed, 2016-10-05 at 07:19 -0400, George Mihaiescu wrote:
> > Hi Xav,
> >
> > We are trying to get usage metrics for radosgw as well for internal cost recovery. Can you please share how far you got in that process and what it was missing?
> >
> 
> To be honest, we didn't get very far and that's one of the reasons for
> using Swift instead.  There were limitations with permissions that we
> found very difficult to get around, without having a data collection
> user added to each and every project.
> 
> > Thank you,
> > George
> >
> > > On Oct 5, 2016, at 1:57 AM, Xav Paice <xavpaice at gmail.com> wrote:
> > >
> > >> On Wed, 2016-10-05 at 15:42 +1100, Blair Bethwaite wrote:
> > >> Nice! But I'm curious, why the need to migrate?
> > >
> > > Hmm.  I want to be diplomatic since both are great for their thing.
> > >
> > > For us, the main reason was simply that we wanted replication of the
> > > object storage between regions (we started the process before that was a
> > > feature in RGW), but also being a public cloud we also wanted to be able
> > > to bill customers for their usage, and we were finding that incredibly
> > > difficult with Rados Gateway in comparison to Swift.
> > >
> > > That, and we found customers were using RGW as a backup, and that's on
> > > the same storage back end as our Cinder and Glance - moving to a
> > > different platform makes it separate.
> > >
> > > There's a few other features in Swift that aren't in RGW, and we have
> > > customers asking for them, which really matters a lot to us.
> > >
> > > There's pros and cons for both, I don't regret us using RGW but it just
> > > doesn't suit our needs right now.
> > >
> > >
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