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Ive been learning a bit more about storage. Let me share what think I know
and ask a more specific question. Please correct me if I am off on what I
think I know.



Glance Images and Cinder Volumes are traditionally stored on the storage
node. Ephemeral volumes (Nova managed, traditionally on the compute node)
are the copy of the Glance image that has been copied to the compute node
and booted as an instances' vHD. Cinder volumes can (among other things) be
added to an instance as additional storage besides this Glance Image.



In Fuel I set the "Ceph RBD for volumes (Cinder)" and "Ceph RBD for images
(Glance)" settings, which will setup Glance and Cinder on the CEPH OSD
storage nodes.

But I am not sure about what the setting "Ceph RBD for ephemeral volumes
(Nova)" will do.

Would selecting it move the running instances' vHD off the hypervisors and
onto the storage node? (aka: move ephemeral from local to over the network?



Thanks



--jim



On Thu, Aug 24, 2017 at 12:14 PM, Jim Okken <jim at jokken.com> wrote:

> Hi all,
>
>
> We have a pretty complicated storage setup and I am not sure how to
> configure Fuel for deployment of the storage nodes. I'm using Fuel
> 10/Newton. Plus i'm a bit confused on some of the storage aspects
> (image/glance, volume/cinder, ephemeral/?.)
>
>
> We have 3 nodes dedicated to be storage nodes, for HA.
>
> We’re using fiber channel extents and need to use the CEPH filesystem.
>
>
> I’ll try to simplify the storage situation at first to ask my initial
> question without too many details.
>
>
> We have a fast and a slow storage location. Management tells me they want
> the slow location for the Glance images and the fast location for the place
> where the instances actually run. (assume compute nodes with slow hard
> drives but access to a fast fiber channel volume.)
>
>
>
> Where is “the place where the instances actually run”. It isn’t via Glance
> nor Cinder is it?
>
> When I configure the storage for CEPH OSD node I see volume settings for
> Base System, CEPH and CEPH journal. (I see my slow storage and my fast
> storage disks).
>
>
> When I configure  the storage for a Compute node I see volume settings for
> Base system and Virtual Storage. Is this Ephemeral storage? How does a
> Virtual Storage volume here compare to the CEPH volume on the CEPH OSD?
>
>
> I have seen an openstack instance who’s .xml file on the compute node
> shows the vHD as a CEPH path (ie: rbd:compute/f63e4d30-7706-40be-8eda-b74e91b9dac1_disk.
> Is this a CEPH local to the compute node or CEPH on the storage node? (Is
> this Ephemeral storage?)
>
>
> Thanks for any help you might have, I’m a bit confused
>
>
> thanks
>
>
> -- Jim
>
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