Block Device to OpenStack Guide

Red Hat Ceph Storage 5

Configuring Ceph, QEMU, libvirt and OpenStack to use Ceph as a back end for OpenStack.

Red Hat Ceph Storage Documentation Team

Abstract

This document describes how to configure OpenStack and Ceph to use Ceph as a back end for Glance, Cinder, Cinder Backup and Nova.
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