to boot VMs, or to attach volumes to running VMs. OpenStack manages
volumes using Cinder services.
-You can use OpenStack Glance to store images in a Ceph Block Device, and you
+You can use OpenStack Glance to store images in a Ceph Block Device, and you
can use Cinder to boot a VM using a copy-on-write clone of an image.
The instructions below detail the setup for Glance and Cinder, although
they do not have to be used together. You may store images in Ceph block devices
while running VMs using a local disk, or vice versa.
+.. tip:: This document describes using Ceph Block Devices with OpenStack Havana.
+ For earlier versions of OpenStack see
+ `Block Devices and OpenStack (Dumpling)`_.
+
.. index:: pools; OpenStack
Create a Pool
rbd_store_user=images
rbd_store_pool=images
+If you’re using Folsom and want to enable copy-on-write cloning of images into
+volumes, also add::
+
+ show_image_direct_url=True
+
+Note that this exposes the back end location via Glance’s API, so the endpoint
+with this option enabled should not be publicly accessible.
+
Configuring Cinder
------------------
'boot from volume' and the volume you created.
.. _qemu-img: ../qemu-rbd/#running-qemu-with-rbd
+.. _Block Devices and OpenStack (Dumpling): http://ceph.com/docs/dumpling/rbd/rbd-openstack
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