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On 07/05/2013 10:41 AM, Randy S wrote:
> Hallo Khanh Nguyen,
> 
> Thank you very much for taking the time to give me an answer.
> 
> So if I understand you correctly I can mount an iSCSI or NFS export from
> an external storage device into the cinder host and let cinder use that
> to create its own iscsi block device which can then be exported further.
> 
> Is it also possible that this cinder iscsi block device can also be
> imported by a host that I did not create with openstack, let's say an
> existing ubuntu physical host which I already have for two years? If
> yes, how would I go about that.
> 
> High regards,
> 
> Randy
> 
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> From: ndquockhanh at gmail.com
> To: sim.ple at live.nl
> CC: community at lists.openstack.org
> Subject: RE: [openstack-community] usage of openstack information
> Date: Thu, 4 Jul 2013 22:26:02 +0700
> 
> Hi Randy,
> 
> 
> Openstack’s operations bases on the installed hypervisor. First, you
> need to know exactly your hypervisor that is supporting which types  of
> back-end storage.  After that, you can select one  back-end storage
> system corresponds to your system.
> 
>  
> 
> Cinder is just an front-end to help vms can connect to an back-end
> storage behind. Cinder supports so much driver to connect to back-end
> storage system such as: NFS, Ceph, GlusterFS, LVM ,…
> 
>  
> 
> If you have a back-end storage which cinder hasn’t supported yet driver
> to connect to, you can create a middle mount-point by using  NFS, ISCSI
> to help cinder can operate on them J.
> 
>  
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Khanh Nguyen
> 
>  
> 
> *From:*Randy S [mailto:sim.ple at live.nl]
> *Sent:* Thursday, July 4, 2013 5:32 PM
> *To:* community at lists.openstack.org
> *Subject:* [openstack-community] usage of openstack information
> 
>  
> 
> Hi all,
> 
>  
> 
> I have been reading up on openstack as I am completely new to this. I have set 
> 
> up some test systems according to manuals found here and there.
> 
> Now, I have a question about the possible use of openstack storage.
> 
> I have seen that the normal provisioning of storage is meant to be for vm's 
> 
> created within openstack itself. This can then be block storage (cinder) or 
> 
> object storage.
> 
>  
> 
> Can somebody tell me if it is possible to use openstack to provision the same 
> 
> kind of storage to physical servers which are otherwise in no way connected to 
> 
> openstack or virtual machines created in systems like vmware?
> 
>  
> 
> I hope somebody can asnwer me this and maybe point me the way to test something 
> 
> like this.
> 
>  
> 
> Thanks in advance,
> 
>  
> 
> Rgds,
> 
>  
> 
> Randy
> 
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