Image storage planning
The OpenStack Image service (Glance) provides a REST API for storing and
managing virtual machine images and snapshots. Glance requires you to
configure a backend for storing images.
MCP supports the following options as Glance backend:
- Ceph cluster
- A highly scalable distributed object storage that is recommended
as an Image storage for environments with a large number of images and/or
snapshots. If used as a backend for both image storage and ephemeral storage,
Ceph can eliminate caching of images on compute nodes
and enable copy-on-write of disk images, which in large clouds can save
a lot of storage capacity.
- GlusterFS
- A distributed network file system that allows you
to create a reliable and redundant data storage for image files.
This is the default option for an Image store with the
File
backend in MCP.
The default backend used in Mirantis Reference Architecture is Ceph cluster.