Hi Alfredo: In latest master, the ceph is not mandatory , and stx is enabling others storages solution . For example [1] , netapp can be used as k8s PV and storage backend Rook [2] is integrating into starlingx too , which can support K8S and Openstack . User/customer can integrated other storage type as k8s application . By this, you don’t need dedicate storage nodes. Hope this can help you . [1] https://storyboard.openstack.org/#!/story/2007391 [2] https://storyboard.openstack.org/#!/story/2005527 Thanks. BR Austin Sun. From: Alfredo De Luca <alfredo.deluca@gmail.com> Sent: Friday, May 22, 2020 2:58 PM To: Sun, Austin <austin.sun@intel.com> Cc: starlingx-discuss@lists.starlingx.io Subject: Re: [Starlingx-discuss] (no subject) Hi Austin et al. Any thoughts about this? Cheers On Tue, May 19, 2020 at 11:26 AM Alfredo De Luca <alfredo.deluca@gmail.com<mailto:alfredo.deluca@gmail.com>> wrote: Thanks Austin. does it mean that it will never be possible or it's in a roadmap? Also is it possible to force/customise at your own responsibility? Cheers On Mon, May 18, 2020 at 3:24 PM Sun, Austin <austin.sun@intel.com<mailto:austin.sun@intel.com>> wrote: Hi Alfredo: I think you are using version later than 3.0 . The answer should be no, the compute nodes don’t have storage personality , so ceph osds are not enabled in compute nodes. Thanks. BR Austin Sun. From: Alfredo De Luca <alfredo.deluca@gmail.com<mailto:alfredo.deluca@gmail.com>> Sent: Monday, May 18, 2020 8:52 PM To: starlingx-discuss@lists.starlingx.io<mailto:starlingx-discuss@lists.starlingx.io> Subject: [Starlingx-discuss] (no subject) Hi all. Just a quick question. For testing purpose, we deployed a Distributed Cloud 3.0 with 2 controller. Than we deployed the sub-cloud with the option Bare metal Standard with Controller Storage Installation Now in the future we will deploy Bare metal Standard with Dedicated Storage Installation and I wonder if we can actually use the storage on the compute nodes rather than having dedicate storage. Would it be possible? Cheers -- /Alfredo -- /Alfredo -- /Alfredo