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[Igor Laskovy <igor.laskovy@xxxxxxxxx>]

Thank you Tommi,

but can I use RBD for booting instances? I would like store whole VM on the
Ceph, not only persistent volumes (actually for my project I not prefer use
persistent volumes at all).

Igor Laskovy
facebook.com/igor.laskovy
Kiev, Ukraine
On Jun 25, 2012 7:03 PM, "Tommi Virtanen" <tv@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On Sat, Jun 23, 2012 at 11:42 AM, Igor Laskovy <igor.laskovy@xxxxxxxxx>
> wrote:
> > Hi all from hot Kiev))
> >
> > Does anybody use Ceph as a backend storage for NOVA-INST-DIR/instances/ ?
> > Is it in production use? Live migration is still possible?
> > I kindly ask any advice of best practices point of view.
>
> That's the shared NFS mount style for storing images, right? While you
> could use the Ceph Distributed File System for that, there's a better
> answer (for both Nova and Glance): RBD.
>
> Our docs are still being worked on, but you can see the current state
> at http://ceph.com/docs/master/rbd/rbd-openstack/
>