Re: [Openstack] storage backend for nova

2012-06-28 Thread Sébastien Han
Hi, I'm sure if I understand everything but let me give a try. By default, the compute nodes store virtual instances in /var/lib/nova/instances/. Of course it's part of the compute node local FS. If you want to store this directory somewhere else, use a DFS like GlusterFS or even Ceph or a SAN.

Re: [Openstack] storage backend for nova

2012-06-28 Thread udit agarwal
Hi Sebastien, Thanks again for your reply. Sorry for disturbing you again but I am in a bit of hurry now. As you talk about that swift supports object storage so I can store the VMs data using swift. So if I have my VM instance running on my nova client and if I want to copy some massive data

[Openstack] storage backend for nova

2012-06-27 Thread udit agarwal
Hi, I have set up Openstack in my lab with everything except storage nodes on one system and two other systems with each of them acting themselves as a storage node. I have used swift as the backend for glance so all the uploaded images are stored on these storage nodes. But when I run a virtual