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 I am aware of attaching volumes to instances and this is not what I 'd 
 like to do.

 I would like when I start an instance to be able to attach to it 
 multiple ephemeral disks.

 What Gary proposes looks fine to me but for the moment I am using 
 libvirt and KVM.

 Best,

 George


 On Mon, 1 Dec 2014 19:49:55 +0000, Gary Kotton wrote:
> Please see - https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/BlockDeviceConfig [8]
> That may provide some additional information
> This is currently supported by libvirt and xen. There are patches in
> review for Vmware. Not sure about the other drivers.
> Thanks
> Gary
>
>  From: George Mihaiescu
>  Date: Monday, December 1, 2014 at 9:46 PM
>  To: Georgios Dimitrakakis
>  Cc: Gary Kotton , "openstack at lists.openstack.org [12]"
>  Subject: Re: [Openstack] More than one Ephemeral Disk
>
> Hi Georgios,
>
>   I believe Gary refers to this:
> 
> http://docs.openstack.org/user-guide/content/attach_volume_to_instance.html
> [14]
>
>   Which is probably not exactly what you have in mind, but it might
> still accomplish what you need,
>
>   George
>
> On Mon, Dec 1, 2014 at 2:26 PM, Georgios Dimitrakakis   wrote:
>
>> Hi Gary!
>>
>> Thanks for the feedback!
>>
>> Can you be a little more specific how to implement that? How can I
>> setup a flavor with more than one ephemeral disk?
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> George
>>
>> On Mon, 1 Dec 2014 18:50:41 +0000, Gary Kotton wrote:
>>
>>> Hi,
>>> You are able to do this when you boot using block device
>>> mappings. You can
>>> have a number of ephemeral devices.
>>> Thanks
>>> Gary
>>>
>>> On 12/1/14, 8:13 PM, "Georgios Dimitrakakis" wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hi all!
>>>>
>>>> A rather strange question:
>>>>
>>>> Is it possible to have more than one ephemeral disks attached
>>>> on boot
>>>> at VM?
>>>>
>>>> Can each flavors somehow have many ephemeral disks with
>>>> different size?
>>>>
>>>> Best,
>>>>
>>>> George
>>>>
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