Cinder refuses to migrate a volume that has snapshots — full stop. Here is a practical Ansible-based workaround for Everpure FlashArray environments that preserves your snapshot history as independently recoverable volumes, keeps the workload attached throughout, and leaves a manifest you can use months later to restore to any point in time. The problem You […]
Read More Migrate Cinder Volumes with Snapshots Between FlashArraysDRAM prices have risen over 100% in a single quarter. SSDs are not far behind. For storage teams eyeing a Ceph rollout, the timing couldn’t be worse — and the math may now favour a different approach entirely. For years, Ceph has been the go-to answer for organisations that want scalable, open-source storage without the […]
Read More The Memory Crisis Is Making Your Ceph Deployment More Expensive Than You ThinkThe EU’s Digital Operational Resilience Act (DORA) is forcing a fundamental rethink of infrastructure design in financial services. It is no longer sufficient to have backup plans or theoretical disaster recovery procedures. Regulators now expect provable, testable, and continuously enforced resilience — particularly around data. Traditional approaches to infrastructure resilience have always involved a tradeoff. Synchronous replication […]
Read More Why 3-Site Replication in OpenStack Cinder Is a DORA Game-Changer for EU Organizations