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+ RBD and Apache CloudStack
+===================
+You can use RBD to run instances on in Apache CloudStack.
+
+This can be done by adding a RBD pool as Primary Storage.
+
+There are a couple of prerequisites:
+* You need to CloudStack 4.0 or higher
+* Qemu on the Hypervisor has to be compiled with RBD enabled
+* The libvirt version on the Hypervisor has to be at least 0.10 with RBD enabled
+
+Make sure you meet this requirements before installing the CloudStack Agent on the Hypervisor(s)!
+
+.. important:: To use RBD with CloudStack, you must have a running Ceph cluster!
+
+Limitations
+-------------
+Running instances from RBD has a couple of limitations:
+
+* An additional NFS Primary Storage pool is required for running System VM's
+* Snapshotting RBD volumes is not possible (at this moment)
+* Only one monitor can be configured
+
+Add Hypervisor
+-------------
+Please follow the official CloudStack documentation how to do this.
+
+There is no special way of adding a Hypervisor when using RBD, nor is any configuration needed on the hypervisor.
+
+Add RBD Primary Storage
+-------------
+Once the hypervisor has been added, log on to the CloudStack UI.
+
+* Infrastructure
+* Primary Storage
+* "Add Primary Storage"
+* Select "Protocol" RBD
+* Fill in your cluster information (cephx is supported)
+* Optionally add the tag 'rbd'
+
+Now you should be able to deploy instances on RBD.
+
+RBD Disk Offering
+-------------
+Create a special "Disk Offering" which needs to match the tag 'rbd' so you can make sure the StoragePoolAllocator
+chooses the RBD pool when searching for a suiteable storage pool.
+
+Since there is also a NFS storage pool it's possible that instances get deployed on NFS instead of RBD.