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[Lei Zhang <zhang.lei.fly@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi all ,

Here is my understanding about the stroage in the openstack, I am very
happy about that who can figure out the wrong meaning or add your comment
for this.

Right now, there are two main kinds of storage needed by Openstack. One is
for Image, the other one is for Volume. These two support many kinds of
storage.

Image ( Glance servicer ):

File

NAS

CIFS
NFS
FTP
...

SAN

ISCSI
AoE
...

Local

HTTP
RBD(Ceph)
S3
Swift

Volume (Cinder/nova-volume)

SAN

ISCSI
AoE
....

Local
          LVM

RBD (Ceph)
Sheepdog


Questions:
1. What's the position for swift. It is just the image container for the
glance server?
2. Is there any rules when making choice?
2. What's your tend to choice in so many solution? and why?


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Lei Zhang

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