Try to have a look at the boot from volume feature. Basically the disk base of your instance is an RBD volume from Ceph. Something will be remain in /var/lib/nova/instances but it's only the kvm xml file.
http://ceph.com/docs/master/rbd/rbd-openstack/?highlight=openstack Cheers! -- Regards, Sébastien Han. On Thu, Jan 31, 2013 at 7:40 AM, Wolfgang Hennerbichler <wolfgang.hennerbich...@risc-software.at> wrote: > Hi, > > I'm sorry if this has been asked before. My question is: can I integrate ceph > into openstack's nova & cinder in a way, that I don't need > /var/lib/nova/instances anymore? I'd like to have EVERYTHING in ceph, > starting from glance images to nova-disk-images and volumes (cinder). And > more important: Can this be done in a way so that my horizon-users can still > use horizon (including snapshotting) without the need of abusing the > command-line? :) > I've read that cinder and glance are supported, but I didn't find much > information on nova-disk-images and ceph. > > thanks for a reply > wolfgang > _______________________________________________ > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~openstack > Post to : openstack@lists.launchpad.net > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~openstack > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~openstack Post to : openstack@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~openstack More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
