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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal>Does anyone has a particular recommendation on what is a best practice for implementing Gluster as the Backend for Glance?<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>The docs allow Glance to be implemented on top of a filesystem, which could be mounted directly to a Gluster mount. That is would be the base case.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>But I also read some documents allowing Glance to be mounted on top of Swift or Cinder and here is where it gets tricky.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Should I go with the default setting of having three different mount points in Gluster (/export/cinder, /export/swift, /export/glance) or shall I mount glance on top of Cinder or Swift and by doing this allowing additional features like live migration or faster deployment of VM images?<br><br>What are your recommendations for a production environment?<br><br><br><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=ES-AR style='color:#888888'>-- <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span lang=ES-AR style='color:#888888'>Ignacio Bravo</span></b><span lang=ES-AR style='color:#888888'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span lang=ES-AR style='color:#888888'>LTG Federal</span></b><span lang=ES-AR style='color:#888888'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=ES-AR style='color:#888888'>Mb: 571.224.6046<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#888888'><a href="mailto:roganc@ltgfederal.com" target="_blank"><span style='color:blue'>ibravo@ltgfederal.com</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></body></html>