Ephemeral storage
Ephemeral storage is the storage that is consumed when a Glance image is copied locally to a compute node to instantiate a virtual instance. Glance images are typically sparse and tend to be less than 1 gigabyte in size. When instantiated, images provide the root disk for an instance's operating system. These are also sparsely provisioned, but typically grow up to 10, 20, or 40 gigabytes in size. In traditional OpenStack deployments, ephemeral storage is provided by the compute node's internal disks, and when a compute node fails or an instance is terminated, the storage is lost or reclaimed. These days, many organizations will choose to place ephemeral storage on shared storage.
There are two main reasons to use shared ...
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