Re: [Openstack] nova ceph integration

2013-02-01 Thread Razique Mahroua
Thanks for that clarification Josh, I had a small doubt you just alleviated :) Razique Mahroua - Nuage & Corazique.mahr...@gmail.comTel : +33 9 72 37 94 15 Le 1 févr. 2013 à 00:36, Josh Durgin a écrit :Ceph has been officially production ready for block (rbd) and objectst

Re: [Openstack] nova ceph integration

2013-01-31 Thread Josh Durgin
Ceph has been officially production ready for block (rbd) and object storage (radosgw) for a while. It's just the file system that isn't ready yet: http://ceph.com/docs/master/faq/#is-ceph-production-quality Josh On 01/31/2013 01:23 PM, Razique Mahroua wrote: Speaking of which guys, anything p

Re: [Openstack] nova ceph integration

2013-01-31 Thread Razique Mahroua
Speaking of which guys, anything particular stability-wise regarding Ceph within OpenStack. It's officially not production-ready, yet it's often that solution that comes out when we are looking for data clustering. GlusterFS...yah or nay? Razique Mahroua - Nuage & Corazique.mahr...@gmail.comTel : +

Re: [Openstack] nova ceph integration

2013-01-31 Thread Sébastien Han
+1 John Since CephFS is not production ready what you can do is map RBD device to all of your compute nodes and then mount them in /var/lib/nova/instances. The downside of this that you have way more IOPS since you only have one RBD per compute node for EVERY VMs that will end up into this compute

Re: [Openstack] nova ceph integration

2013-01-31 Thread John Griffith
On Thu, Jan 31, 2013 at 11:43 AM, Sébastien Han 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/

Re: [Openstack] nova ceph integration

2013-01-31 Thread Sébastien Han
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, Sébas