[Openstack] nova ceph integration

Josh Durgin josh.durgin at inktank.com
Thu Jan 31 23:36:19 UTC 2013


Ceph has been officially production ready for block (rbd) and object
storage (radosgw) for a while. It's just the file system that isn't
ready yet:

http://ceph.com/docs/master/faq/#is-ceph-production-quality

Josh

On 01/31/2013 01:23 PM, Razique Mahroua wrote:
> Speaking of which guys,
> anything particular stability-wise regarding Ceph within OpenStack. It's
> officially not production-ready, yet it's often that solution that comes out
> when we are looking for data clustering.
> GlusterFS...yah or nay?
>
> *Razique Mahroua** - **Nuage & Co*
> razique.mahroua at gmail.com <mailto:razique.mahroua at gmail.com>
> Tel : +33 9 72 37 94 15
>
>
> Le 31 janv. 2013 à 19:43, Sébastien Han <han.sebastien at gmail.com
> <mailto:han.sebastien at gmail.com>> a écrit :
>
>> Try to have a look at the boot from volume feature. Basically the disk
>> base of your instance is an RBD volume from Ceph. Something will be
>> remain in /var/lib/nova/instances but it's only the kvm xml file.
>>
>> http://ceph.com/docs/master/rbd/rbd-openstack/?highlight=openstack
>>
>> Cheers!
>> --
>> Regards,
>> Sébastien Han.
>>
>>
>> On Thu, Jan 31, 2013 at 7:40 AM, Wolfgang Hennerbichler
>> <wolfgang.hennerbichler at risc-software.at> wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I'm sorry if this has been asked before. My question is: can I integrate ceph
>>> into openstack's nova & cinder in a way, that I don't need
>>> /var/lib/nova/instances anymore? I'd like to have EVERYTHING in ceph,
>>> starting from glance images to nova-disk-images and volumes (cinder). And
>>> more important: Can this be done in a way so that my horizon-users can still
>>> use horizon (including snapshotting) without the need of abusing the
>>> command-line? :)
>>> I've read that cinder and glance are supported, but I didn't find much
>>> information on nova-disk-images and ceph.
>>>
>>> thanks for a reply
>>> wolfgang





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