Not a CEPH user, but what I believe happens is your HV mounts the NFS storage and then does something like "qemu-img convert" to move it into CEPH.
HTH Lucian -- Sent from the Delta quadrant using Borg technology! Nux! www.nux.ro ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Andrija Panic" <andrija.pa...@gmail.com> > To: dev@cloudstack.apache.org, us...@cloudstack.apache.org > Sent: Wednesday, 25 February, 2015 12:09:59 > Subject: Uploading of Volume - how does what here ? > Hi guys, > > I'm just uploading a Volume, and I guess it will end up on the CEPH storage > that we are using. > > So my qyestion would be: VOLUME will end up on the primary storage in the > end, but right now, I can see that the SSVM is actuall y downloading the > Volume from internet, and writing it to Secondary Storage at the moment. > > WHat happens next - I know that both SSVM and ofcoure my NFS server, can > not write/talk at all to CEPH ? > > Does maybe some randomly choosen host, mounts Secondary Storage NFS, read > Volume, and upload/write to CEPH ? (Since only hypervisor hosts can > actually talk to CEPH) > > Thanks in advance for clarification... > > -- > > Andrija Panić