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You can use OpenStack Glance to store images in a Ceph Block Device, and you
+- **Guest Disks**: Guest disks are guest operating system disks.
+ By default, when you boot a virtual machine,
+ its disk appears as a file on the filesystem of the hypervisor
+ (usually under ``/var/lib/nova/instances/<uuid>/``). Since Havana, it’s
+ possible to directly boot every virtual machine inside Ceph.
+ This is really handy because it allows us to easily perform
+ maintenance operation with the live-migration process.
+ On the other hand, if your hypervisor dies it’s also really convenient
+ to trigger ``nova evacuate`` and almost seamlessly run the virtual machine
+ somewhere else.
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