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[Josh Durgin <josh.durgin@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

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 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 & Co*
> razique.mahroua@xxxxxxxxx <mailto:razique.mahroua@xxxxxxxxx>
> Tel : +33 9 72 37 94 15
>
>
> Le 31 janv. 2013 à 19:43, Sébastien Han <han.sebastien@xxxxxxxxx
> <mailto:han.sebastien@xxxxxxxxx>> a écrit :
>
> > 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,
> > Sébastien Han.
> >
> >
> > On Thu, Jan 31, 2013 at 7:40 AM, Wolfgang Hennerbichler
> > <wolfgang.hennerbichler@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > I'm sorry if this has been asked before. My question is: can I integrate ceph
> > > into openstack's nova & cinder in a way, that I don't need
> > > /var/lib/nova/instances anymore? I'd like to have EVERYTHING in ceph,
> > > starting from glance images to nova-disk-images and volumes (cinder). And
> > > more important: Can this be done in a way so that my horizon-users can still
> > > use horizon (including snapshotting) without the need of abusing the
> > > command-line? :)
> > > I've read that cinder and glance are supported, but I didn't find much
> > > information on nova-disk-images and ceph.
> > >
> > > thanks for a reply
> > > wolfgang