[Openstack] Concurrent Access to Volume

Avishay Traeger avishay at stratoscale.com
Wed Jan 21 21:09:09 UTC 2015


Multi-attach support is being added to Cinder for Kilo:
https://review.openstack.org/#/c/85847/
Once that gets merged, you will be able to access a volume from multiple
VMs.
How you handle the concurrent access in the guests is up to you (OCFS2,
Lustre, etc.)

Thanks,
Avishay

On Wed, Jan 21, 2015 at 9:36 PM, Zeeshan Ali Shah <zashah at kth.se> wrote:

> I think you should use lustre instead of ceph if you want above.
>
>
> /Zee
>
> On Wed, Jan 21, 2015 at 8:45 PM, Georgios Dimitrakakis <
> giorgis at acmac.uoc.gr> wrote:
>
>> Christian,
>>
>> thanks a lot for your suggestion!
>>
>> Manila seems very promising.
>>
>> Is anybody using manila??
>> Is it stable enough?
>>
>> Best,
>>
>> George
>>
>>  On 01/21/2015 12:59 AM, Georgios Dimitrakakis wrote:
>>>
>>>>  For my project it is important to provide concurrent access to a
>>>>  mounted volume from different VMs.
>>>>
>>>>  The access must be read/write. In order to do so I am thinking of using
>>>>  a clustered filesystem like OCFS2 on top of CEPH.
>>>>
>>>>  Do you have any experience on something similar? Any recommendations
>>>>  are mostly welcome.
>>>>
>>>
>>> Maybe Manila is an option for you. This is a shared filesystem service.
>>>
>>> https://github.com/openstack/manila
>>>
>>> Christian.
>>>
>>
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