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It is my understanding that swift lays on top of cinder thus it uses
whatever cinder presents to it.   Thus if you need to integrate all these
different devices you do it at that level.


On Sun, Feb 2, 2014 at 5:15 AM, pragya jain <prag_2648 at yahoo.co.in> wrote:

> thanks for the reply
>
> My question is:
> if we have different types of devices, for example, some of them are SAN
> devices, other are some NAS filers and some of them are some vendor
> specific storage arrays, such as, storage arrays provided by EMC, NetApp
> etc.
> And we want all of them act as storage nodes for Openstack Swift Storage,
> then
> Is it possible? and what should be the procedure for the same?
> -----
> Pragya Jain
>
>
>   On Sunday, 2 February 2014 3:22 PM, Aryeh Friedman <
> aryeh.friedman at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> 1. OpenStack abstracts almost all storage away so even if it is a physical
> disk it is best to treat as if it is not one
> 2. Typically the storage node is an entire host machine which controls
> access to various high volume devices such as SAN's (in smaller installs
> this can be done with local disk but in larger ones it is not possible)
> 3. I do not know enough about your application but odds are your
> attempting to use the wrong API (if your attempting to store files use
> plain old cinder if your doing objects then you want swift [objects being
> defined as DB records or the alike])
>
>
> On Sun, Feb 2, 2014 at 4:37 AM, pragya jain <prag_2648 at yahoo.co.in> wrote:
>
> I am not talking about cinder.
> My question is:
> Openstack swift provides storage as a service to the user so that user can
> store their data offline.
> when a user store some data on swift using Object PUT command, data is
> stored as an object at some storage node.
> 1. What is this storage node - Is it a physical hard disk?
> 2. to store the data, Is swift virtualize the physical storage or directly
> store the data on physical disk?
> 3. Is there any need of storage virtualization in swift?
>
> Thanks
> Pragya Jain
>
>
>   On Sunday, 2 February 2014 11:55 AM, Aryeh Friedman <
> aryeh.friedman at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> You mean you need to access cinder or are you wondering what component
> handles storage (cinder then is the answer)
>
>
> On Sun, Feb 2, 2014 at 1:02 AM, pragya jain <prag_2648 at yahoo.co.in> wrote:
>
>  hi all
>
> my query is:
>
> Is openstack swift virtualize the storage to store the data?
> And how does openstack swift implement it?
>
> Pragya Jain
>
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