Re: Openstack Instances and RBDs

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I don't know of any guide besides the official install docs from grizzly/havana, but I'm running openstack grizzly on top of rbd storage using glance & cinder and it makes (almost) no use of /var/lib/nova/instances. Live migrations also work. The only files there should be "config.xml" and "console" - otherwise, live-migrations won't work OR the path should be a mounted shared storage (NFS, GlusterFS etc).  

Nova-compute stores "disk*" files under that path in the following cases:
- when one starts an instance only by using "--image <image id>" argument to nova-boot, without a pre-created cinder volume and without the "--block-device-mapping" argument
- when one uses a "config disk" for bootstrapping instances
- when one configures a "swap" disk in the flavor used to start the instance 


On Nov 2, 2013, at 2:32 AM, Gaylord Holder <gholder@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> http://www.sebastien-han.fr/blog/2013/06/03/ceph-integration-in-openstack-grizzly-update-and-roadmap-for-havana/
> 
> suggests it is possible to run openstack instances (not only images) off of RBDs in grizzly and havana (which I'm running), and to use RBDs in lieu of a shared file system.
> 
> I've followed
> 
> http://ceph.com/docs/next/rbd/libvirt/
> 
> but I can only get boot-from-volume to work.  Instances still are being housed in /var/lib/nova/instances, making live-migration a non-starter.
> 
> Is there a better guide for running openstack instances out of RBDs, or is it just not ready yet?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> -Gaylord
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