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Mastering OpenStack - Second Edition
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Mastering OpenStack - Second Edition

by Omar Khedher, Chandan Dutta
April 2017
Intermediate to advanced
470 pages
11h 12m
English
Packt Publishing
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Ephemeral storage

For the sake of simplicity, we will start with non-persistent storage, also known as ephemeral storage. As its name suggests, a user who actively uses a virtual machine in the OpenStack environment will lose the associated disks once the VM is terminated. When a tenant boots a virtual machine on an OpenStack cluster, a copy of the glance image is downloaded on the compute node. This image is used as the first disk for the Nova instance, which provides the ephemeral storage. Anything stored on this disk will be lost once the Nova instance is terminated.

Ephemeral disks can be created and attached either locally on the storage of the hypervisor host or hosted on external storage by the means of NFS mount. Using the last option, ...
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