Check ScaleIO http://www.emc.com/products-solutions/trial-software-download/scaleio.htm (no support though) or Open vStorage https://www.openvstorage.org/features/ . I haven't seen big deployments on that yet, but there are reference architectures out there that you can review. Regards, On Thu, Feb 18, 2016 at 2:29 PM, Johan Borch <johan.borch at gmail.com> wrote: > Hi list! > > Don't know if this is the right list for this question, but I'll give it a > try. > > I'm looking for some new innovative way for instance storage on vmware > compute nodes. Do anyone have suggestions on an vmware architecture that > don't involve huge monolithic SAN or Netapp alike devices? VSAN is quite > expensive and have to narrow hardware demands for my taste. > > What I'm after is for example similar to the CEPH approach or maybe local > storage on each compute node, but local storage has the drawback that it do > not allow for easy maintenance of compute nodes (without shutting down > instances). > > Are there any big deployments with openstack and vmware that has solved > their storage demand in a smart way they like to share? :) > > Thanks > Johan > > _______________________________________________ > Mailing list: > http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack > Post to : openstack at lists.openstack.org > Unsubscribe : > http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack > > -- Francisco J Araya Co-founder & CEO | sentinel.la Enjoy a better OpenStack Experience -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.openstack.org/pipermail/openstack/attachments/20160218/23aca0ce/attachment.html>