[Openstack] change driver from virtio to scsi

2016-09-02 Thread Lomayani S. Laizer
Hello, We are running openstack mitaka in ubuntu 16.04 and storage back-end is ceph. we have running vms and we want to change from virtio to scsi to support trimming. Tried to change xml configuration file via virsh and works only if you reboot via virsh. when you reboot via nova goes to default

Re: [Openstack] can I manually register a volume in cinder

2016-07-11 Thread Lomayani S. Laizer
I think you can create empty volumes in cinder command line of the same as your volume. then delete created volume in ceph. finally rename you volume with data in ceph to deleted volume name created in cinder cinder create --name volume_name volume_size rbd rm pool_name/volume-id_of_cinder_vol