[Openstack] Making Image Launch faster in Openstack

Rakesh Sinha rakesh.sinha at gslab.com
Mon May 26 13:35:04 UTC 2014


Thanks Padraig, but is there any other way than using "squid". Like calling
API's in glance or calling nova-compute API's or add something in glance
code which triggers copy of vmdk to all compute nodes after image is
uploaded.


On Mon, May 26, 2014 at 5:47 PM, Pádraig Brady <P at draigbrady.com> wrote:

> On 05/26/2014 12:54 PM, Rakesh Sinha wrote:
> > Hi
> >
> > I am aware that first instance launch over a Compute Node takes time
> because it has to copy image from the Glance Server to the Compute Node.
> >
> > Since the local copy is available over the Compute now so next time it
> launches faster.
> >
> > I want that when the Image is uploaded over the Glance Server then only
> it makes a copy of it over the Compute Server also so that there is no
> delay even if the Image is launched for the first time or nth time.
> >
> > Please suggest proper methods to achieve so or maybe some code changes.
>
> CERN did some work on that: http://coarasa.dyndns.org/?p=162
>
> thanks,
> Pádraig.
>
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://lists.openstack.org/pipermail/openstack/attachments/20140526/a273923a/attachment.html>


More information about the Openstack mailing list