[openstack-community] usage of openstack information
Khanh Nguyen
ndquockhanh at gmail.com
Thu Jul 4 15:26:02 UTC 2013
Hi Randy,
Openstack's operations bases on the installed hypervisor. First, you need to
know exactly your hypervisor that is supporting which types of back-end
storage. After that, you can select one back-end storage system
corresponds to your system.
Cinder is just an front-end to help vms can connect to an back-end storage
behind. Cinder supports so much driver to connect to back-end storage system
such as: NFS, Ceph, GlusterFS, LVM ,.
If you have a back-end storage which cinder hasn't supported yet driver to
connect to, you can create a middle mount-point by using NFS, ISCSI to help
cinder can operate on them :).
Regards,
Khanh Nguyen
From: Randy S [mailto:sim.ple at live.nl]
Sent: Thursday, July 4, 2013 5:32 PM
To: community at lists.openstack.org
Subject: [openstack-community] usage of openstack information
Hi all,
I have been reading up on openstack as I am completely new to this. I have
set
up some test systems according to manuals found here and there.
Now, I have a question about the possible use of openstack storage.
I have seen that the normal provisioning of storage is meant to be for vm's
created within openstack itself. This can then be block storage (cinder) or
object storage.
Can somebody tell me if it is possible to use openstack to provision the
same
kind of storage to physical servers which are otherwise in no way connected
to
openstack or virtual machines created in systems like vmware?
I hope somebody can asnwer me this and maybe point me the way to test
something
like this.
Thanks in advance,
Rgds,
Randy
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