Tag Archives: openstack

OpenStack with Ceph: failing nova snapshots

Posted on December 4, 2018 by ebl

I have another experience to share with Stackers that use Ceph as their storage backend. In this environment Ceph is used for Glance, Nova and Cinder. I won’t get into configuration details, I assume you’re familiar with this kind of … Continue reading →

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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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