Kevin, This is functionality that has been requested in the past but has never been implemented. The best way to proceed would likely be to propose a blueprint/spec for this and start working this through that. -Jay On 09/23/2016 02:51 AM, Zhenyu Zheng wrote: > Hi Novaers and Cinders: > > Quite often application requirements would demand using locally > attached disks (or direct attached disks) for OpenStack compute > instances. One such example is running virtual hadoop clusters via > OpenStack. > > We can now achieve this by using BlockDeviceDriver as Cinder driver > and using AZ in Nova and Cinder, illustrated in[1], which is not very > feasible in large scale production deployment. > > Now that Nova is working on resource provider trying to build an > generic-resource-pool, is it possible to perform > "volume-based-scheduling" to build instances according to volume? As > this could be much easier to build instances like mentioned above. > > Or do we have any other ways of doing this? > > References: > [1] > http://cloudgeekz.com/71/how-to-setup-openstack-to-use-local-disks-for-instances.html > > Thanks, > > Kevin Zheng > > > __________________________________________________________________________ > OpenStack Development Mailing List (not for usage questions) > Unsubscribe: OpenStack-dev-request at lists.openstack.org?subject:unsubscribe > http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-dev -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.openstack.org/pipermail/openstack-dev/attachments/20160923/a96cf4e4/attachment.html>