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Tim,

Good thought.  That would be an interim solution until we are able to 
get the process automated.

Jay

On 5/8/2019 10:55 AM, Tim Bell wrote:
> Just brainstorming....
>
> Would it be possible to set up a couple of VMs as iscsi LIO gateways by hand while this feature is being developed and using that end point to boot an Ironic node? You may also be on a late enough version of Ceph to do it using http://docs.ceph.com/docs/mimic/rbd/iscsi-overview/.
>
> Not self-service but could work for a few cases..
>
> Tim
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jay Bryant <jungleboyj at gmail.com>
> Reply-To: "jsbryant at electronicjungle.net" <jsbryant at electronicjungle.net>
> Date: Wednesday, 8 May 2019 at 17:46
> To: "openstack-discuss at lists.openstack.org" <openstack-discuss at lists.openstack.org>
> Subject: Re: topic: ironic boot from cinder volume(the cinder volume backend is ceph storage)
>
>      This is going to require being able to export Ceph volumes via iSCSI.
>      The Ironic team communicated the importance of this feature to the
>      Cinder team a few months ago.
>      
>      We are working on getting this support in place soon but it probably
>      will not be until the U release.
>      
>      Thanks!
>      
>      Jay
>      
>      
>      On 5/8/2019 6:48 AM, 陈杰 wrote:
>      > Nowdays , the opestack rocky release ironic , is support ironic boot
>      > from cinder volume(the cinder volume backend is ceph storage)? My goal
>      > is to achieve this.
>      > Who can tell me about this principle?
>      > looking forward to a reply
>      > thank you all.
>      
>      
>