Its possible to control where nova stores ephemeral volumes using the "nova_instance_datadir_volume" variable. All you need to do is provide it a mount point on the HV and it will bind it into the libvirt container: https://github.com/openstack/kolla-ansible/blob/master/ansible/roles/nova-ce... So provided you can raid together the NVME drives it should work. ________________________________ From: Franck VEDEL <franck.vedel@univ-grenoble-alpes.fr> Sent: Wednesday, July 24, 2024 08:17 To: Openstack-discuss <openstack-discuss@lists.openstack.org> Subject: [kolla-ansible]Material choices for ephemerals CAUTION: This email originates from outside THG ________________________________ Hello. I would like your opinion regarding a hardware configuration and my Openstack cluster project. I have the possibility of purchasing 6 servers to build this cluster for students, my current Openstack being too small. I have a proposition from the manufacturer (DELL): 6 servers with characteristics per server: - BOSS-N1 controller card + with 2 M.2 960GB (RAID 1) - 5 x 3.84TB Data Center NVMe Read Intensive AG Drive U2 Gen4 with Carrier - 12 x 64GB RDIMM, 4800MT/s Dual Rank My problem is: BOSS is used to install the system (Ubuntu 22.04 in my case). But, various tests on a small cluster with SSD disks showed that the solution with ephemerals was really the most interesting for what I want to do. Problem: I don't believe you can have the system on the BOSS and the ephemerals on the NVMe disks. So my questions are: 1) am I wrong and ephemerals are possible on NVMe (I use kolla-ansible to deploy, I haven't seen how to do that)? 2) or the solution is to create a Ceph cluster on the NVME of the 6 servers 3) or a better solution exists Thank you in advance if you can help me make these choices. Franck