You guys can just respond here and I’ll add your responses to the docs. Zac Sent from [Proton Mail](https://proton.me/mail/home) for iOS On Thu, Jan 25, 2024 at 05:52, Ilya Dryomov <[idryomov@xxxxxxxxx](mailto:On Thu, Jan 25, 2024 at 05:52, Ilya Dryomov <<a href=)> wrote: > On Wed, Jan 24, 2024 at 7:31 PM Eugen Block <eblock@xxxxxx> wrote: >> >> We do like the separation of nova pools as well, and we also heavily >> use ephemeral disks instead of boot-from-volume instances. One of the >> reasons being that you can't detach a root volume from an instances. >> It helps in specific maintenance cases, so +1 for keeping it in the >> docs. > > So it seems like instead of dropping mentions of vms pool, we should > expand "Configuring Nova" section where it says > > In order to boot virtual machines directly from Ceph volumes, you > must configure the ephemeral backend for Nova. > > with appropriate steps and /etc/nova/nova.conf snippet. I'm guessing > > images_type = rbd > images_rbd_pool = vms > images_rbd_ceph_conf = /etc/ceph/ceph.conf > > at a minimum? > > Zitat or Eugen, do you want to suggest a precise edit based on your > working configuration for Zac to incorporate or perhaps even open a PR > directly? > > Thanks, > > Ilya > >> >> Zitat von Erik McCormick <emccormick@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>: >> >> > On Wed, Jan 24, 2024 at 10:02 AM Murilo Morais <murilo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> >> > wrote: >> > >> >> Good afternoon everybody! >> >> >> >> I have a question regarding the documentation... I was reviewing it and >> >> realized that the "vms" pool is not being used anywhere in the configs. >> >> >> >> The first mention of this pool was in commit 2eab1c1 and, in e9b13fa, the >> >> configuration section of nova.conf was removed, but the pool configuration >> >> remained there. >> >> >> >> Would it be correct to ignore all mentions of this pool (I don't see any >> >> use for it)? If so, it would be interesting to update the documentation. >> >> >> >> https://docs.ceph.com/en/latest/rbd/rbd-openstack/#create-a-pool >> > >> > >> > The use of that "vms" pool is for Nova to directly store "ephemeral" disks >> > in ceph instead of on local disk. It used to be described in the Ceph doc, >> > but seems to no longer be there. It's still in the Redhat version [1] >> > however. Wouldn't it be better to put that back instead of removing the >> > creation of the vms pool from the docs? Maybe there's a good reason we only >> > want to boot instances into volumes now, but I'm not aware of it. >> > >> > [1] - Section 3.4.3 of >> > https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-us/red_hat_ceph_storage/3/html-single/ceph_block_device_to_openstack_guide/index >> > >> > -Erik >> > _______________________________________________ >> > ceph-users mailing list -- ceph-users@xxxxxxx >> > To unsubscribe send an email to ceph-users-leave@xxxxxxx >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> ceph-users mailing list -- ceph-users@xxxxxxx >> To unsubscribe send an email to ceph-users-leave@xxxxxxx > _______________________________________________ > ceph-users mailing list -- ceph-users@xxxxxxx > To unsubscribe send an email to ceph-users-leave@xxxxxxx _______________________________________________ ceph-users mailing list -- ceph-users@xxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to ceph-users-leave@xxxxxxx
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