[Openstack] what is object Storage (swift) and block storage(cinder) , Is the possible to use both storage on same machine?

Ken Peng kenpeng at pravda.ru
Mon May 12 06:14:01 UTC 2014


Hi,

Please check this url:
http://www.rackspace.com/blog/the-differences-between-cloud-block-storage-and-cloud-files/

block storage and object storage  can be run on the same host, that depends
by your design.
But in the production environment, we may not suggest this due to the
performance and scalability etc.



On Mon, May 12, 2014 at 1:52 PM, dhanesh1212121212 <dhanesh1212 at gmail.com>wrote:

> Hi Team,
>
>
> which storage we should use.
>
> what is the difference between object Storage and block storage?
>
> Is the possible to use both storage on same machine?
>
> ( I have two harddisk attached in my machine "/dev/sda" "/dev/sdb",
>
>  /dev/sda i have few partitions like /dev/sda1 /dev/sda2 and /dev/sdb is
> free.)
>
> /dev/sda1 has the root partion and /dev/sda2 swap.
>
> Please guide me on this.
>
>
> Regards,
> Dhanesh M
>
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