From patchwork Wed Apr 17 20:11:32 2013 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Patchwork-Submitter: Wido den Hollander X-Patchwork-Id: 2456331 Return-Path: X-Original-To: patchwork-ceph-devel@patchwork.kernel.org Delivered-To: patchwork-process-083081@patchwork2.kernel.org Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [209.132.180.67]) by patchwork2.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EA22BDF23A for ; Wed, 17 Apr 2013 20:19:25 +0000 (UTC) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S965623Ab3DQUTZ (ORCPT ); Wed, 17 Apr 2013 16:19:25 -0400 Received: from hosted.by.pcextreme ([79.99.132.139]:42408 "EHLO wido-desktop.widodh.nl" rhost-flags-OK-FAIL-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S965338Ab3DQUTY (ORCPT ); Wed, 17 Apr 2013 16:19:24 -0400 X-Greylist: delayed 466 seconds by postgrey-1.27 at vger.kernel.org; Wed, 17 Apr 2013 16:19:24 EDT Received: by wido-desktop.widodh.nl (Postfix, from userid 0) id 186B7A6698; Wed, 17 Apr 2013 22:11:35 +0200 (CEST) From: Wido den Hollander To: ceph-devel@vger.kernel.org Cc: Wido den Hollander Subject: [PATCH] docs: Update CloudStack RBD documentation Date: Wed, 17 Apr 2013 22:11:32 +0200 Message-Id: <1366229492-17550-1-git-send-email-wido@42on.com> X-Mailer: git-send-email 1.7.9.5 Sender: ceph-devel-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: ceph-devel@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Wido den Hollander --- doc/rbd/rbd-cloudstack.rst | 11 ++++++----- 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) diff --git a/doc/rbd/rbd-cloudstack.rst b/doc/rbd/rbd-cloudstack.rst index fb66978..b81660e 100644 --- a/doc/rbd/rbd-cloudstack.rst +++ b/doc/rbd/rbd-cloudstack.rst @@ -39,9 +39,9 @@ CloudStack integrates with Ceph's block devices to provide CloudStack with a back end for CloudStack's Primary Storage. The instructions below detail the setup for CloudStack Primary Storage. -.. note:: We recommend installing with Ubuntu 12.04 or later so that +.. note:: We recommend installing with Ubuntu 13.04 or later so that you can use package installation instead of having to compile - QEMU from source. + libvirt from source. Installing and configuring QEMU for use with CloudStack doesn't require any special handling. Ensure that you have a running Ceph cluster. Install QEMU and @@ -53,8 +53,8 @@ higher (you may need to compile from source) and ensure it is running with Ceph. #. Also see `KVM Hypervisor Host Installation`_. -.. note:: Raring Ringtail (13.04) will have ``libvirt`` verison 0.9.13 or higher - by default. +.. note:: Raring Ringtail (13.04) will have ``libvirt`` version 0.9.13 or higher + with RBD storage pool support enabled by default. Create a Pool ============= @@ -104,8 +104,9 @@ created (e.g., ``cloudstack``). Limitations =========== -- CloudStack will only bind to one monitor. +- CloudStack will only bind to one monitor (You can however create a Round Robin DNS record over multiple monitors) - CloudStack does not support cloning snapshots. +- You still need a (small) NFS based Primary Storage for the SystemVMs - You may need to compile ``libvirt`` to use version 0.9.13 with Ubuntu.