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OpenStack with Ceph: Clean up orphaned instances

Posted on April 27, 2018 by ebl

Working with Ceph and OpenStack can make your life as a cloud administrator really easy, but sometimes you discover its downsides. From time to time I share some findings in this blog, it’s a nice documentation for me and hopefully … Continue reading →

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Obstacles for OpenStack: cinder-volume tears down control node

Posted on April 23, 2018 by ebl

I’d like to share another finding from my work with OpenStack. I was asked for assistance in a small private cloud based on Ocata with a single control node and a handful of compute nodes, and Ceph as storage backend. … Continue reading →

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Ceph: How to enable nova live snapshots on Xen hypervisor

Posted on January 26, 2017 by ebl

Currently, our company is in the middle of a migration process, trying to move our existing virtual machines into our private OpenStack cloud (Mitaka). Some of them will be moved, others will be re-installed. One of the major issues we … Continue reading →

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