October 2017
Intermediate to advanced
340 pages
9h 46m
English
OpenStack clouds are usually configured to present virtual drives to guest operating system instances through libvirt via the virtio drivers, which avoid the baggage and performance limitations of emulating traditional IDE/ATA drives. On Linux clients these volumes will often be presented as /dev/vda, /dev/vdb, and so forth if the older virtio-blk driver is used and /dev/sda, /dev/sdb, etc. if the newer virtio-scsi driver is configured. In either event one can also reference devices by UUID as shown in the preceding example.
Guest operating systems can thus install and use Ceph-backed volumes as they would a traditional physical disk, for boot or supplementary data drives. The guest operating system via ...
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