Leverage the features of IBM GPFS cluster file system to store cached images and instances for OpenStack Compute (nova)

IBM General Parallel File System (GPFS) is a mature cluster file system used by some of the largest enterprises and supercomputers in the world. It offers a number of specific features and optimizations for hosting master images, instances, and volumes. In particular, the bock-level format-agnostic copy-on-write mec...

Leverage the features of IBM GPFS cluster file system to store cached images and instances for OpenStack Compute (nova)

IBM General Parallel File System (GPFS) is a mature cluster file system used by some of the largest enterprises and supercomputers in the world. It offers a number of specific features and optimizations for hosting master images, instances, and volumes. In particular, the bock-level format-agnostic copy-on-write mec...

Bring GPFS support images_type for OpenStack Compute (nova)

The main goal is to provide an alternative backend store for the ephemeral disk image. This blueprint proposes the use of copy-on-write function provided by GPFS to quickly generate the snapshot of instance regardless of the image format, when user select the GPFS as the instances store. This is usually managed by...

Driver to store images on an IBM GPFS file system backend for Glance

IBM General Parallel File System (GPFS) is a mature cluster file system used by some of the largest enterprises and supercomputers in the world. It offers a number of specific features and optimizations for hosting master images, instances, and volumes. In particular, the bock-level format-agnostic copy-on-write m...