Block Devices and OpenStack
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-You may use Ceph block device images with OpenStack through ``libvirt``, which
+.. index:: Ceph Block Device; OpenStack
+
+You may use Ceph Block Device images with OpenStack through ``libvirt``, which
configures the QEMU interface to ``librbd``. Ceph stripes block device images as
-objects across the cluster, which means that large Ceph block device images have
+objects across the cluster, which means that large Ceph Block Device images have
better performance than a standalone server!
-To use Ceph block devices with OpenStack, you must install QEMU, ``libvirt``,
+To use Ceph Block Devices with OpenStack, you must install QEMU, ``libvirt``,
and OpenStack first. We recommend using a separate physical host for your
OpenStack installation. OpenStack recommends a minimum of 8GB of RAM and a
quad-core processor. The following diagram depicts the OpenStack/Ceph
| OSDs | | Monitors |
+------------------------+ +------------------------+
-.. important:: To use Ceph block devices with OpenStack, you must have a
- running Ceph cluster.
+.. important:: To use Ceph Block Devices with OpenStack, you must have
+ access to a running Ceph Storage Cluster.
Two parts of OpenStack integrate with Ceph's block devices:
beginning with the Folsom release.
Beginning with OpenStack Folsom and Ceph 0.52, you can use OpenStack Glance to
-store images in a Ceph block device, and you can use Cinder or ``nova-volume``
+store images in a Ceph Block Device, and you can use Cinder or ``nova-volume``
to boot a VM using a copy-on-write clone of an image.
The instructions below detail the setup for Glance and Nova/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.
+.. index:: pools; OpenStack
+
Create a Pool
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