[sheepdog-users] FYI: sheepdog based iSCSI appliance from NTT DATA

[Hitoshi Mitake]

At Tue, 14 Oct 2014 14:55:34 +0000,
Andrew J. Hobbs wrote:
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> Qemu -> Sheep will be the most direct path, with automatic reconnection 
> on failure.  I'm curious as to whether the iSCSI option is a better 
> performer when you are running sheep on machines separate from qemu.

I think if OSes can run on QEMU, you don't need iSCSI. iSCSI is
suitable when you want to avoid virtualization overhead or use
virtualization unfriendly facilities (e.g. GPUs, Manycore
accelerators).

Thanks,
Hitoshi

> 
> On 10/14/2014 10:27 AM, Vasiliy Tolstov wrote:
> > 2014-10-14 12:09 GMT+04:00 Hitoshi Mitake <mitake.hitoshi at lab.ntt.co.jp>:
> >> Hi sheepdog developers and users,
> >>
> >> NTT DATA will start to sell an iSCSI appliance based on sheepdog:
> >> http://www.nttdata.com/jp/ja/news/release/2014/101401.html
> >> # sorry, Japanese only... but you can find a string "sheepdog" on the
> >> # page
> >>
> >> The product couldn't be realized without your help, thanks a lot!
> >
> > Very good news =)!
> > P.S. If i want to use sheepdog for vps under qemu, what is the best
> > way to access sheepdog vdi qemu <-> iSCSI or qemu <-> sheep ?
> >
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