+1 from me. We are currently investigating how to use OpenStack with a FC SAN.
On Sun, Mar 25, 2012 at 8:29 AM, Salman A Baset <[email protected]> wrote: > I am sure it has been discussed, but booting an instance from a volume > stored on SAN (similar to EBS) is clearly an important use case for private > clouds... > > Best Regards, > > Salman A. Baset > Research Staff Member, IBM T. J. Watson Research Center > Tel: +1-914-784-6248 > > > > > [image: Inactive hide details for Josh Durgin ---03/22/2012 07:25:23 > PM---At the last couple volumes meetings, there was some discussio]Josh > Durgin ---03/22/2012 07:25:23 PM---At the last couple volumes meetings, > there was some discussion of the desired behaviors of nova's bo > > From: Josh Durgin <[email protected]> > To: [email protected] > Date: 03/22/2012 07:25 PM > Subject: [Openstack] boot from volume use cases > Sent by: [email protected] > ------------------------------ > > > > At the last couple volumes meetings, there was some discussion of the > desired behaviors of nova's boot from volume functionality. There were > a few use cases discussed, but there are probably plenty we didn't > think of, so it would be useful to get input from a larger audience. > > What use cases for boot from volume are people interested in, and > which should nova support? > > Here are a few use cases: > > 1) I use an existing instance to manually create a bootable volume > containing an OS there is no image for (and I cannot create an > image). I boot the new OS from the volume I created. > > 2) I create a bunch of new instances that have no ephemeral disks, > but are all based on the same image. The data from the image is > copied to a new volume for each new instance. > > 3) I have an instance that has no ephemeral disks, and stores > everything in a volume. I take periodic snapshots of the > volume. Later, my original instance becomes corrupted, and I want > to restore from the last known good snapshot I took. I boot a new > instance from a new volume created by cloning from the last > good snapshot. > > > _______________________________________________ > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~openstack > Post to : [email protected] > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~openstack > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp > > > > _______________________________________________ > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~openstack > Post to : [email protected] > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~openstack > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp > >
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