Hi,

Is there anyone done thin provisioning on OpenStack instances (virtual
machine)? Based on the current configurations, it works well with my cloud
using ceph 0.94.5 with SSD journal (from 18mins to around 7 mins for
creating an 40GB instance and not good SSD iops). But what I wanted is the
storage space as it copied the whole image from Glance (40GB) to each newly
created virtual machine, is there any chances that it will copy only the
top changes? somewhat like a vmware-like snapshot, but still the base image
is still there.

Current setup:
xxx --> (uploaded glance image, say Centos 7 with 40GB)

if create an instance,
xxx + yyy  where yyy is the new changes
(40GB + MB/GB changes)


*Plan setup: *
(it will save storage as it will not copy xxx)
*yyy* is only stored on the ceph


As per testing on current cloud, the OpenStack snapshot still copy the
whole image + new changes. Correct me if wrong as still using the Kilo
release (2015.1.1) or maybe it was a misconfiguration? And the more I added
the users, the more OSDs will be added too.

Any insights are highly appreciated.


Thanks,
Mario
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