Storage planning

To meet your scalability and redundancy needs, select the appropriate ephemeral, persistent, and shared storage technologies before deploying RHOSO. Proper planning ensures your network configurations and security settings support your workload requirements.

Ephemeral storage is associated with a specific Compute instance. When this instance is terminated, so is the associated ephemeral storage. Ephemeral storage is useful for runtime requirements, such as storing the operating system of an instance.

Persistent storage is independent of any running instance. Persistent storage is useful for storing reusable data, such as data volumes, disk images, and shareable file systems.

You should consider and plan the storage requirements of your RHOSO environment before installing and deploying RHOSO. You should consider the following aspects of storage requirements when creating your storage plan:

• Supported features and topologies
• Storage technologies
• Networking
• Scalability
• Accessibility
• Performances
• Costs
• Security
• Redundancy and disaster recovery
• Storage management