April 2017
Intermediate to advanced
470 pages
11h 12m
English
Persistent storage means that the storage resource is always available. Powering off the virtual machine does not affect the data on a persistent storage disk. We can divide persistent storage in OpenStack into three options: object storage, file share storage, and block storage with the code names Swift, Manila, and Cinder, respectively. We did talk about Swift, Manila and Cinder in Chapter 1, Designing OpenStack Cloud Architectural Consideration, in a nutshell.
Let's dive into each of the storage options for OpenStack and see how the different storage concepts are used by OpenStack for different purposes.
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