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Re: Ceph as a NOVA-INST-DIR/instances/ storage backend

 

Thank you Florian and Tommi, I appreciated your help))

On Mon, Jun 25, 2012 at 8:18 PM, Tommi Virtanen <tv@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 25, 2012 at 10:03 AM, Igor Laskovy <igor.laskovy@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> 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).
>
> OpenStack Essex does not make it convenient, but it can boot off of RBD.
>
> We don't have really good documentation on that yet, but the relevant
> resources are:
>
> https://github.com/ceph/ceph-openstack-tools/blob/master/boot-from-volume
> https://github.com/ceph/ceph-openstack-tools/blob/master/start-on-rbd.sh
> http://docs.openstack.org/trunk/openstack-compute/admin/content/boot-from-volume.html



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Igor Laskovy
facebook.com/igor.laskovy
Kiev, Ukraine


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