[Openstack] Question About Multinode and Swift

Mahardhika mahardika.gilang at andalabs.com
Thu Sep 5 06:45:58 UTC 2013


Yeah i thought of that way, could it be SAN that attach to 
/var/lib/nova/instance?
so in this way swift is just for database / object thing .
thanks so much.
On 9/5/2013 1:36 PM, Gangur, Hrushikesh (HP Converged Cloud - R&D - 
Sunnyvale) wrote:
>
> Yes, the compute node's sizing must be done in terms of CPU, Memory 
> and Disk based on the flavor being selected. If you want to host 50 
> vms that have flavor specs 1 vcpu, 2 gb RAM, 10 gb root disk each, you 
> need a compute node with 500 GB instance repository, 72 GB Memory, 16 
> core CPU.
>
> Instead of local repository, you may like to mount 
> /var/lib/nova/instances as an NFS. This way it would be compute node 
> independent and you easily migrate VM instances across compute nodes 
> (in case of failure).
>
> Regards~hrushi
>
> *From:*Mahardhika [mailto:mahardika.gilang at andalabs.com]
> *Sent:* Wednesday, September 04, 2013 11:28 PM
> *To:* Gangur, Hrushikesh (HP Converged Cloud - R&D - Sunnyvale)
> *Cc:* Openstack Milis
> *Subject:* Re: [Openstack] Question About Multinode and Swift
>
> So, in this case we can't separate them to another server?
> so thats mean we need large hardisk for compute node, is that right?
> On 9/5/2013 12:48 PM, Gangur, Hrushikesh (HP Converged Cloud - R&D - 
> Sunnyvale) wrote:
>
>     vm instances' root and ephemeral disk data are stored in compute node's /var/lib/nova/instances. for storing user data i.e persistent, you must use cinder's block storage or swifts object store.
>
>       
>
>     Cheers ~hrushi
>
>       
>
>       
>
>     On Sep 4, 2013, at 10:19 PM, "Mahardhika"<mahardika.gilang at andalabs.com>  <mailto:mahardika.gilang at andalabs.com>  wrote:
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>       
>
>         Dear all, i have some question around my head.
>
>           
>
>         1. i have compute node and running KVM hypervisor in there, controller node and network node.
>
>         question is, in where data that instance run store? is it on compute node?
>
>         2. if i want to store all data in separate node let say using swift (swift node), can this happen?
>
>         3. what is flavor used to store data? i mean when i create instance with selected flavor(ex:10GB), where that space that would be create? in swift node?
>
>         4. So if this can be done, in my compute node is just run KVM, and no data store that. right?
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>         Thanks before.
>
>         -- 
>
>         Regards,
>
>         Mahardhika Gilang
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