The Dos and Donts for Ceph and OpenStack

Ceph is an enormously popular storage backend for OpenStack, and it provides excellent integration with Nova, Glance, and Cinder. However, it is not without its shortcomings, and like any other storage platform, it’s not perfect for everything. This session illustrates the benefits of direct Ceph integration with Glance image storage, Cinder volume storage, and Nova ephemeral storage, the details of Ceph RBD snapshots, cloning, backup, and mirroring, and their relation to OpenStack services, The

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