[Users] Cloud Storage for OpenVZ Containers

Kir Kolyshkin kir at openvz.org
Tue Jan 28 07:51:03 PST 2014


On 28 January 2014 02:55, Kirill Korotaev <dev at parallels.com> wrote:

> >> On 25 Jan 2014, at 07:38, Rene C. openvz at dokbua.com wrote:
> >>
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > I read the website about the cloud storage and I found some words, which
> seems familiar for me.
> >
> > May I ask, which filesystem do you use to be able to regularly scrub and
> self-heal the filesystem?
> >
> > Personaly I use zfsonlinux in production for a long time now and I am
> very satisfied with it, and based on your description, it seems you should
> use something like that and something on top of the native filesystem to
> get a cloud storage.
> >
> > Or you use a ceph or alike "filesystem", which has similar capabilities
> with cloud features.
>
> It’s more like a ceph. Data is stored in a distributed way, so unlike to
> zfs you have access to the data even in case of node failure (crash,
> CPU/memory fault etc.) and access is available from ANY cluster node.
> As such we store the data and maintain checksums on every node and can do
> periodic scrubbing of the data.
>

Just to clarify -- this is Parallels own distributed/cloud filesystem, not
CEPH or GlusterFS,
but similar to. For more info, check the links at
https://openvz.org/Parallels_Cloud_Storage#External_links
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