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.
-.. important:: Ceph doesn’t support QCOW2 for hosting a virtual machine disk.
- Thus if you want to boot virtual machines in Ceph (ephemeral backend or boot
- from volume), the Glance image format must be ``RAW``.
-
-.. tip:: This document describes using Ceph Block Devices with OpenStack Havana.
- For earlier versions of OpenStack see
- `Block Devices and OpenStack (Dumpling)`_.
+.. important:: Using QCOW2 for hosting a virtual machine disk is NOT recommended.
+ If you want to boot virtual machines in Ceph (ephemeral backend or boot
+ from volume), please use the ``raw`` image format within Glance.
.. index:: pools; OpenStack
Glance can use multiple back ends to store images. To use Ceph block devices by
default, configure Glance like the following.
-Prior to Juno
-~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
-
-Edit ``/etc/glance/glance-api.conf`` and add under the ``[DEFAULT]`` section::
-
- default_store = rbd
- rbd_store_user = glance
- rbd_store_pool = images
- rbd_store_chunk_size = 8
-
-
-Juno
-~~~~
-
-Edit ``/etc/glance/glance-api.conf`` and add under the ``[glance_store]`` section::
-
- [DEFAULT]
- ...
- default_store = rbd
- ...
- [glance_store]
- stores = rbd
- rbd_store_pool = images
- rbd_store_user = glance
- rbd_store_ceph_conf = /etc/ceph/ceph.conf
- rbd_store_chunk_size = 8
-
-.. important:: Glance has not completely moved to 'store' yet.
- So we still need to configure the store in the DEFAULT section until Kilo.
Kilo and after
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
show_image_direct_url = True
-For Mitaka only
-^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
-
-To enable image locations and take advantage of copy-on-write cloning for images, add under the ``[DEFAULT]`` section::
-
- show_multiple_locations = True
- show_image_direct_url = True
-
Disable cache management (any OpenStack version)
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
.. tip:: If your virtual machine is already running you can simply restart it to get the socket
-Havana and Icehouse
-~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
-
-Havana and Icehouse require patches to implement copy-on-write cloning and fix
-bugs with image size and live migration of ephemeral disks on rbd. These are
-available in branches based on upstream Nova `stable/havana`_ and
-`stable/icehouse`_. Using them is not mandatory but **highly recommended** in
-order to take advantage of the copy-on-write clone functionality.
-
-On every Compute node, edit ``/etc/nova/nova.conf`` and add::
-
- libvirt_images_type = rbd
- libvirt_images_rbd_pool = vms
- libvirt_images_rbd_ceph_conf = /etc/ceph/ceph.conf
- disk_cachemodes="network=writeback"
- rbd_user = cinder
- rbd_secret_uuid = 457eb676-33da-42ec-9a8c-9293d545c337
-
-It is also a good practice to disable file injection. While booting an
-instance, Nova usually attempts to open the rootfs of the virtual machine.
-Then, Nova injects values such as password, ssh keys etc. directly into the
-filesystem. However, it is better to rely on the metadata service and
-``cloud-init``.
-
-On every Compute node, edit ``/etc/nova/nova.conf`` and add::
-
- libvirt_inject_password = false
- libvirt_inject_key = false
- libvirt_inject_partition = -2
-
-To ensure a proper live-migration, use the following flags::
-
- libvirt_live_migration_flag="VIR_MIGRATE_UNDEFINE_SOURCE,VIR_MIGRATE_PEER2PEER,VIR_MIGRATE_LIVE,VIR_MIGRATE_PERSIST_DEST,VIR_MIGRATE_TUNNELLED"
-
-Juno
-~~~~
-
-In Juno, Ceph block device was moved under the ``[libvirt]`` section.
-On every Compute node, edit ``/etc/nova/nova.conf`` under the ``[libvirt]``
-section and add::
-
- [libvirt]
- images_type = rbd
- images_rbd_pool = vms
- images_rbd_ceph_conf = /etc/ceph/ceph.conf
- rbd_user = cinder
- rbd_secret_uuid = 457eb676-33da-42ec-9a8c-9293d545c337
- disk_cachemodes="network=writeback"
-
-
-It is also a good practice to disable file injection. While booting an
-instance, Nova usually attempts to open the rootfs of the virtual machine.
-Then, Nova injects values such as password, ssh keys etc. directly into the
-filesystem. However, it is better to rely on the metadata service and
-``cloud-init``.
-
-On every Compute node, edit ``/etc/nova/nova.conf`` and add the following
-under the ``[libvirt]`` section::
-
- inject_password = false
- inject_key = false
- inject_partition = -2
-
-To ensure a proper live-migration, use the following flags (under the ``[libvirt]`` section)::
-
- live_migration_flag="VIR_MIGRATE_UNDEFINE_SOURCE,VIR_MIGRATE_PEER2PEER,VIR_MIGRATE_LIVE,VIR_MIGRATE_PERSIST_DEST,VIR_MIGRATE_TUNNELLED"
-
-Kilo
-~~~~
-
-Enable discard support for virtual machine ephemeral root disk::
-
- [libvirt]
- ...
- ...
- hw_disk_discard = unmap # enable discard support (be careful of performance)
-
-
Restart OpenStack
=================
cinder create --image-id {id of image} --display-name {name of volume} {size of volume}
-Note that image must be RAW format. You can use `qemu-img`_ to convert
-from one format to another. For example::
+You can use `qemu-img`_ to convert from one format to another. For example::
qemu-img convert -f {source-format} -O {output-format} {source-filename} {output-filename}
qemu-img convert -f qcow2 -O raw precise-cloudimg.img precise-cloudimg.raw
#. Select the volume you created.
.. _qemu-img: ../qemu-rbd/#running-qemu-with-rbd
-.. _Block Devices and OpenStack (Dumpling): http://docs.ceph.com/docs/dumpling/rbd/rbd-openstack
-.. _stable/havana: https://github.com/jdurgin/nova/tree/havana-ephemeral-rbd
-.. _stable/icehouse: https://github.com/angdraug/nova/tree/rbd-ephemeral-clone-stable-icehouse
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