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Re: [OpenStack] Images need to be stored in Glance or SWIFT?

 

Ok, got some info at
http://docs.openstack.org/diablo/openstack-image-service/admin/content/configuring-the-swift-storage-backend.html
.

Looks like Glance supports multiple storage backends (Filesystem storage
being the default) and it can be configured to use SWIFT. So then SWIFT is
a complementary project for OpenStack and not really an absolute
requirement!

Regards,
Balu

On Thu, Mar 14, 2013 at 11:07 AM, Balamurugan V G
<balamuruganvg@xxxxxxxxx>wrote:

> Hi,
>
> The OpenStack Installation document at
> http://docs.openstack.org/folsom/basic-install/content/ as well as the
> guide at
> https://github.com/mseknibilel/OpenStack-Folsom-Install-guide/blob/master/OpenStack_Folsom_Install_Guide_WebVersion.rst  do not talk about installing SWIFT. And in my setup (going by the install
> guide in git), I see that the images are stored in Glance. How does SWIFT
> come in to the picture, my understanding was that the Images will be stored
> in SWIFT and Glance is a catalog only.
>
> Can some one throw some light on how to use SWIFT? I need to create a
> multi site storage for Images and SWIFT can perhaps help me with it.
>
> Regards,
> Balu
>

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