Re: [Openstack] understanding ephemeral and persistant volumes

2012-02-29 Thread Adrian Smith
gt; From: openstack-bounces+george.mihaiescu=q9@lists.launchpad.net > [mailto:openstack-bounces+george.mihaiescu=q9@lists.launchpad.net] On > Behalf Of Michaël Van de Borne > Sent: Tuesday, February 28, 2012 3:52 AM > To: openstack@lists.launchpad.net > Subject: Re: [Opensta

Re: [Openstack] understanding ephemeral and persistant volumes

2012-02-28 Thread George Mihaiescu
: Tuesday, February 28, 2012 4:00 PM To: George Mihaiescu Cc: Michaël Van de Borne; openstack@lists.launchpad.net Subject: Re: [Openstack] understanding ephemeral and persistant volumes On Feb 28, 2012, at 1:03 PM, George Mihaiescu wrote: So by default the disk of an instance is basically

Re: [Openstack] understanding ephemeral and persistant volumes

2012-02-28 Thread Lorin Hochstein
On Feb 28, 2012, at 1:03 PM, George Mihaiescu wrote: > > So by default the disk of an instance is basically stored on the local > filesystem of the server where the instance is running (in > "/var/lib/nova/instances/instance-000X/disk"), and it's called ephemeral > because when you termina

Re: [Openstack] understanding ephemeral and persistant volumes

2012-02-28 Thread George Mihaiescu
inal Message- From: openstack-bounces+george.mihaiescu=q9@lists.launchpad.net [mailto:openstack-bounces+george.mihaiescu=q9@lists.launchpad.net] On Behalf Of Michaël Van de Borne Sent: Tuesday, February 28, 2012 3:52 AM To: openstack@lists.launchpad.net Subject: Re: [Openstack] unde

Re: [Openstack] understanding ephemeral and persistant volumes

2012-02-28 Thread Vishvananda Ishaya
All images are downloaded to the local filesystem. Swift is an object storage system, not a block storage system. The original image will remain in swift to be downloaded again but it is not modified. Vish On Feb 23, 2012, at 7:46 AM, Michaël Van de Borne wrote: > Hi all, > > I'd like to und

Re: [Openstack] understanding ephemeral and persistant volumes

2012-02-28 Thread Michaël Van de Borne
is it too complicated or too simple to be answered on the ML? Le 23/02/12 16:46, Michaël Van de Borne a écrit : Hi all, I'd like to understand how things go with ephemeral and persistant volumes. For instance, say that my gold images are stored in a Swift storage network, connected to Glance

[Openstack] understanding ephemeral and persistant volumes

2012-02-23 Thread Michaël Van de Borne
Hi all, I'd like to understand how things go with ephemeral and persistant volumes. For instance, say that my gold images are stored in a Swift storage network, connected to Glance. When I ask Nova to boot the VM, - will the disk image stay in Swift storage? - will the physical compute node co