[Openstack-operators] Shared Storage for compute nodes

Sam P sam47priya at gmail.com
Tue Jun 21 07:55:24 UTC 2016


Hi,

 Hope you have already gone through this document... if not FYI
 http://docs.openstack.org/ops-guide/arch_storage.html

 As Saverio said, Ceph is widely adopted solution.
 For small clouds, we found that NFS is much affordable solution in
terms of cost and the complexity.

--- Regards,
Sampath



On Tue, Jun 21, 2016 at 4:42 PM, Saverio Proto <zioproto at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello Michael,
>
> a very widely adopted solution is to use Ceph with rbd volumes.
>
> http://docs.openstack.org/liberty/config-reference/content/ceph-rados.html
> http://docs.ceph.com/docs/master/rbd/rbd-openstack/
>
> you find more options here under Volume drivers:
> http://docs.openstack.org/liberty/config-reference/content/section_volume-drivers.html
>
> Saverio
>
>
> 2016-06-21 9:27 GMT+02:00 Michael Stang <michael.stang at dhbw-mannheim.de>:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I wonder what is the recommendation for a shared storage for the compute
>> nodes? At the moment we are using an iSCSI device which is served to all
>> compute nodes with multipath, the filesystem is OCFS2. But this makes it a
>> little unflexible in my opinion, because you have to decide how many compute
>> nodes you will have in the future.
>>
>> So is there any suggestion which kind of shared storage to use for the
>> compute nodes and what filesystem?
>>
>> Thanky,
>> Michael
>>
>>
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