Tuesday Tech Tip - An In-Depth Overview of PetaSAN

Each Tuesday, we will be releasing a tech tip video that will give users information on various topics relating to our Storinator storage servers.

This week, Mitch gives us an in-depth overview of PetaSAN; a great purpose-built appliance for Ceph iSCSI storage. Last week, Brett introduced PetaSAN and talked about the two ways that Ceph is exported with iSCSI via "the Red Hat way" and the "SUSE Linux way". This video will focus on the features of PetaSAN, how its used, along with a live demonstration configuring a vSphere cluster.

Be sure to watch next Tuesday, when we give you another 45 Drives tech tip.

[razin]

Just the video I was waiting. Thanks a lot.

[bfrdk]

Thank you for taking the time to show this off. Looking to replace our current SAN with something that provides flexibility, scalability, HA, and replication for DR. Ceph checks all of those boxes for us but the books that I have (from '19) say that they do not support VMware clusters, specifically, where multiple hosts share iSCSI block storage. I think this has changed, but it's reassuring to see PetaSAN catering to this use-case.

[francomartin]

Awesome video! nice tech. Can we have a video on how to backup a ceph pool?

[kheavmady]

m new to this setup. I wonder if I install peteSAN without virtual box how can I setup HDD, let say I have 12 separate HDDs and I want to combine it as one HDD. Windows has storage space to do that, but I did not see that in petaSAN

[JonnyDudemeister]

I don't get the redundant subnets for iscsi multipathing. Whats the benefit?