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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">Has someone updated docs.starlingX.io for this change?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><a name="_____replyseparator"></a><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"> Alfredo De Luca [mailto:alfredo.deluca@gmail.com]
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<b>Sent:</b> Friday, February 21, 2020 7:21 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> Dinescu, Stefan <Stefan.Dinescu@windriver.com><br>
<b>Cc:</b> starlingx-discuss@lists.starlingx.io<br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [Starlingx-discuss] Changes to Ceph storage backend provisioning<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif">great! Thanks for clarifying<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif">Cheers<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">On Fri, Feb 21, 2020 at 1:42 PM Dinescu, Stefan <<a href="mailto:Stefan.Dinescu@windriver.com">Stefan.Dinescu@windriver.com</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">At this moment in time only the Ceph storage backend in supported. As I said, this feature was designed for less powerful systems where Ceph was not needed.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">Also, small correction. I said
<i>"the new command is <b>not</b> officially required". </i>What I meant to say was "<i>the new command is
<b>now</b> officially required</i>".<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black"> Alfredo De Luca <<a href="mailto:alfredo.deluca@gmail.com" target="_blank">alfredo.deluca@gmail.com</a>><br>
<b>Sent:</b> Friday, February 21, 2020 1:42 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> Dinescu, Stefan <<a href="mailto:Stefan.Dinescu@windriver.com" target="_blank">Stefan.Dinescu@windriver.com</a>><br>
<b>Cc:</b> <a href="mailto:starlingx-discuss@lists.starlingx.io" target="_blank">
starlingx-discuss@lists.starlingx.io</a> <<a href="mailto:starlingx-discuss@lists.starlingx.io" target="_blank">starlingx-discuss@lists.starlingx.io</a>><br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [Starlingx-discuss] Changes to Ceph storage backend provisioning</span>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif">Hi Stefan. does it mean that it will be possible to have a different storage backend?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif">Cheers<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">On Fri, Feb 21, 2020 at 9:36 AM Dinescu, Stefan <<a href="mailto:Stefan.Dinescu@windriver.com" target="_blank">Stefan.Dinescu@windriver.com</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">Changes have been merged, so the new command is not officially required to provision the Ceph storage-backend.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">Let me know if you encounter any issues.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">Thanks,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black"> Dinescu, Stefan <<a href="mailto:Stefan.Dinescu@windriver.com" target="_blank">Stefan.Dinescu@windriver.com</a>><br>
<b>Sent:</b> Thursday, February 20, 2020 5:41 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> <a href="mailto:starlingx-discuss@lists.starlingx.io" target="_blank">
starlingx-discuss@lists.starlingx.io</a> <<a href="mailto:starlingx-discuss@lists.starlingx.io" target="_blank">starlingx-discuss@lists.starlingx.io</a>><br>
<b>Subject:</b> [Starlingx-discuss] Changes to Ceph storage backend provisioning</span>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">Hello guys.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">I have been working on a feature to make provisioning of Ceph storage backend optional and the changes will soon merge. Reviews: [1], [2], [3] and [4].
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">The main purpose of this feature is to allow STX to be installed on systems with a limited number of resources (CPU and RAM mainly, but also hard-drives). If people want to deploy
applications that don't require any persistent storage, ceph shouldn't consume RAM and CPU time.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">IMPORTANT:
</span></b><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">The stx-openstack application requires persistent storage, and thus requires a ceph storage backend.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">This change adds a new command that needs to run after the ansible bootstrap, in order to provision the ceph storage backend. The command is:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">system storage-backend-add ceph --confirmed</span></b><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">These changes are also documented in review [4].
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">There is also the option for users to install a full system
<b>without</b> provisioning the Ceph storage backend and then provision it later using the same command.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">Make sure you update your workflow to take into account this new command. If you encounter any bugs or issues once these changes are merged, feel free to send me an email.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">Thanks,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">[1]:
<a href="https://review.opendev.org/705234" target="_blank" id="gmail-m_3884778763381474308x_gmail-m_4819382421251463831LPlnk851336">
https://review.opendev.org/705234</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<a href="https://review.opendev.org/705235" target="_blank" id="gmail-m_3884778763381474308x_gmail-m_4819382421251463831LPlnk426950">
https://review.opendev.org/705235</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<a href="https://review.opendev.org/705236" target="_blank" id="gmail-m_3884778763381474308x_gmail-m_4819382421251463831LPlnk855511">
https://review.opendev.org/705236</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">[4]:
<a href="https://review.opendev.org/707385" target="_blank" id="gmail-m_3884778763381474308x_gmail-m_4819382421251463831LPlnk655552">
https://review.opendev.org/707385</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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