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<i><font color="#666666">This link shows the integration of NexentaStor (a NAS/SAN integrated storage solution) with Openstack Nova: <a href="http://mirantis.blogspot.com/2011/11/converging-openstack-with-nexenta.html" target="_blank">http://mirantis.blogspot.com/2011/11/converging-openstack-with-nexenta.html</a></font></i></blockquote>
<div><br></div><div><br></div></div><div>That's Nova, not Swift..</div><div>In case of Nova, a NAS or SAN approach makes very much sense.</div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Running swift on a NAS is all downside. You can make it work, but I don't see any benefit.</div>
<div><br></div><div>As an aside, above a moderate scale, NAS can start to get problematic for Nova volumes as well, depending on the architecture and usage patterns.</div><div><br></div><div>Nexenta is productized ZFS. You could set up something similar providing iscsi from other systems that support ZFS.</div>
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