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Hi Turbo,

The first thing I want to know

   - Which VM are you creating(i.e; which OS image are you taking)?
   - What size are you using and all?

Secondly,

   - Which flavor are you using for VM creation.?


On Tue, Jun 21, 2016 at 12:56 PM, Eugen Block <eblock at nde.ag> wrote:

> Can't you boot an instance without cinder?
>>>
>>
>> Don't know, can I??
>>
>
> Well, you should ;-) How do you try to boot your instance, from CLI or
> Horizon? If it's Horizon, you would have to NOT klick the button "Create a
> new volume --> Yes" ;-) If it's CLI it's sufficient to only execute "nova
> boot --flavor <FLAVOR> --image <IMAGE-ID> --nic net-id=<NET-ID> (optional:
> only if you have multiple networks available) <NAME>"
> This way you avoid creating a volume.
>
> You could edit nova.conf
>>>
>> How?
>>
>
> It's usually the default, although I'm really not an expert in Openstack.
> But if you simply try to set up nova on control and compute node following
> an install guide, it should bring you there.
> I followed
> http://docs.openstack.org/mitaka/install-guide-obs/nova-controller-install.html,
> there aren't many options to configure and it defaults to local file
> storage.
>
> From what I can see, it doesn't even start sharing via iSCSI
>>
>
> You should try to fix that before you try to use it with openstack.
>
> Didn't even knew you could do that. Thought you HAD to use cinder/swift..
>>
>> Please point me to a faq/howto/doc on how to do that, thanx!
>>
>
> I used this guide:
>
> http://docs.openstack.org/mitaka/install-guide-obs/environment-networking-storage-cinder.html
> In the section for block storage it says "Block storage node (Optional)",
> so you wouldn't have to, but I guess it makes sense in the longterm. But as
> I already said, first you should try to get an instance running at all
> before using another backend.
>
>
> Regards,
> Eugen
>
> Zitat von Turbo Fredriksson <turbo at bayour.com>:
>
> On Jun 20, 2016, at 3:27 PM, Eugen Block wrote:
>>
>> Can't you boot an instance without cinder?
>>>
>>
>> Don't know, can I??
>>
>> You could edit nova.conf to use local file system, just to have a running
>>> instance. If that works you can switch to another backend.
>>>
>>
>> How?
>>
>> cinder create --image <IMAGE-ID> --name <NAME> <SIZE>
>>>
>>
>> I'll try that thanx. How do you do that with the "openstack" command?
>>
>> Try debugging your iscsi connection, maybe first without openstack.
>>>
>>
>> From what I can see, it doesn't even start sharing via iSCSI..
>>
>> In my environment, I first tried to get all services running and working
>>> without external backends, cinder, glance and nova all ran on local storage.
>>>
>>
>> Didn't even knew you could do that. Thought you HAD to use cinder/swift..
>>
>> Please point me to a faq/howto/doc on how to do that, thanx!
>>
>> Then I tried other backends for cinder (iscsi), now all services use ceph.
>>>
>>
>> ceph?
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