This is another article about OpenStack with Ceph as the storage backend. Like my other posts about this topic this is not about how to install and configure your private cloud but it’s more a collection of obstacles you could be facing. For me it’s also an online documentation in case I forgot what I did weeks, months or even years ago.
Now let’s get to it. We’ve been working with Ceph for quite a while now, it’s really comfortable launching instances within seconds. But from time to time we noticed that some instances took several minutes to boot, and there was nothing obvious happening on the compute nodes or in the Ceph cluster. So we didn’t really bother to debug it further, it’s not too bad if you have to wait one minute or so for a 6 GB instance to start.