[Openstack] Global deployment of Glance

Chris Behrens chris.behrens at rackspace.com
Tue May 17 16:49:48 UTC 2011


Each zone should definitely have glance instances, IMO.  At least two per zone for redundancy and networking reasons in large OpenStack installations.  There's some work to do to support this, though.

- Chris

On May 17, 2011, at 8:59 AM, Glen Campbell wrote:

> If we are going to deploy Glance to support a global deployment of Nova, would it make sense to have replicas in different regions for better performance?
> 
> Or, to put it another way, is there a recommended way to keep multiple Glance installations in sync?
> 
> Users doing snapshots/backups, etc., would presumably get better performance if Glance was local, but how would we keep the base/shared images in sync?
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