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Hi steve,

The blockdevicedriver looks like exactly what i need. I don't know how I missed it. 

Thank you!
David

On August 30, 2015 10:53:40 AM EDT, Steve Gordon <sgordon at redhat.com> wrote:
>----- Original Message -----
>> From: "David Arroyo" <droyo at aqwari.net>
>> To: openstack-operators at lists.openstack.org
>> 
>> Hello,
>> 
>> I would like to pass entire disks to my openstack instances. I have
>> some IO-bound workloads and would like to avoid any overhead or
>> contention by giving an instance access to N additional disks, such
>> that they do not share that disk with other guests on the same
>compute
>> node.
>> 
>> These additional disks do not need to last longer than the instances
>> themselves; they are "ephemeral" in that regard. There is no need for
>> backup, no need for instance or data migration, and no need for
>running
>> the instance on a separate compute node from the extra disks.
>> Effectively I want to have an "extra disks" property, as part of a
>> flavor or image, that is handled like vcpus without overcommit.
>> 
>> I have been doing some research but have not yet found an obvious way
>> to do this in openstack. Does anyone else have a similar use case,
>and
>> how have you handled it? To be more specific, we run some very large
>> Cassandra clusters on physical hardware, with excellent performance.
>> Cassandra is largely IO-bound, and we want to virtualize it without
>> introducing unnecessary IO latency.
>> 
>> Cheers,
>> David
>
>Have you looked at the BlockDeviceDriver as described here:
>
>http://cloudgeekz.com/71/how-to-setup-openstack-to-use-local-disks-for-instances.html
>
>-Steve

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