[openstack][cinder] Assign each storage backend to each AZ

Nguyễn Hữu Khôi nguyenhuukhoinw at gmail.com
Wed Jan 4 07:31:37 UTC 2023


Thanks for the answer.
But I cannot find the way to configure the storage backend per AZ, Would
you give me some suggestions?
Nguyen Huu Khoi


On Wed, Jan 4, 2023 at 1:53 PM Rajat Dhasmana <rdhasman at redhat.com> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> From the description, I'm assuming the instances will be boot from volume.
> In that case, you will need to create a volume type for each backend and
> you can use 'extra_specs' properties in the volume type to assign a volume
> type to a particular AZ. In this case, if you're already creating one
> backend per AZ then a volume type linked to that backend should be good.
> Now you will need to create a bootable volume and launch an instance with
> it. Again, the instance should be launched in the AZ as used in the volume
> type to support your use case.
> Also if you want to restrict volumes of a particular AZ to be attached to
> the instance of the same AZ, you can use the config option
> *cross_az_attach*[1] which will allow/disallow cross AZ attachments.
> Hope that helps.
>
> [1]
> https://docs.openstack.org/nova/latest/configuration/config.html#cinder.cross_az_attach
>
> Thanks
> Rajat Dhasmana
>
> On Wed, Jan 4, 2023 at 7:31 AM Nguyễn Hữu Khôi <nguyenhuukhoinw at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Hello guys.
>> I took time to search for this question but I can't find the answer.
>>
>> I have an Openstack private cloud and I use an  AZ to a department.
>> For example,
>> AZ-IT for IT department
>> AZ-Sale for Sale department...
>>
>> I will prepare 2 storage backends for each AZ.
>>
>> My goal is that when users launch an instance by choosing AZ then It will
>> use only the backend for this AZ.
>>
>> Would Openstack support my goal?
>>
>> Thanks for reading my email.
>>
>> Nguyen Huu Khoi
>>
>
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