October 2015
Intermediate to advanced
210 pages
4h 23m
English
Glance can use the existing Ceph pools as a datastore to store virtual machine images. In this recipe, we will configure the Glance backend driver for the Ceph RADOS Block Device.
Before configuring Glance to use the Ceph RBD backend, we need to make sure that the Database, message broker, and Keystone are set for Glance, and both glance-api.conf and glance-registry.conf are configured correctly to use them. We also need to make sure that a Ceph volume with a corresponding pool for glance was created, and the ceph.conf and key.ring files were preconfigured.
The CephFS Python package is also required to use the Ceph RBD backend driver:
[root@controller ~]# yum install -y python-cephfs
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