On Thu, Jan 31, 2013 at 11:43 AM, Sébastien Han <han.sebast...@gmail.com>wrote:
> Try to have a look at the boot from volume feature. Basically the disk > base of your instance is an RBD volume from Ceph. Something will be > remain in /var/lib/nova/instances but it's only the kvm xml file. > > http://ceph.com/docs/master/rbd/rbd-openstack/?highlight=openstack > > Cheers! > -- > Regards, > Sébastien Han. > > > On Thu, Jan 31, 2013 at 7:40 AM, Wolfgang Hennerbichler > <wolfgang.hennerbich...@risc-software.at> wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I'm sorry if this has been asked before. My question is: can I integrate > ceph into openstack's nova & cinder in a way, that I don't need > /var/lib/nova/instances anymore? I'd like to have EVERYTHING in ceph, > starting from glance images to nova-disk-images and volumes (cinder). And > more important: Can this be done in a way so that my horizon-users can > still use horizon (including snapshotting) without the need of abusing the > command-line? :) > > I've read that cinder and glance are supported, but I didn't find much > information on nova-disk-images and ceph. > > > > thanks for a reply > > wolfgang > > _______________________________________________ > > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~openstack > > Post to : openstack@lists.launchpad.net > > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~openstack > > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp > > _______________________________________________ > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~openstack > Post to : openstack@lists.launchpad.net > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~openstack > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp > Boot from volume is one good option, another is to setup ceph and point nova's insances_path to point to it. I haven't done it with Ceph but I've done this sort of thing using iSCSI mounts on the compute node.
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