Ok, this is a really dumb question. With vmware, you get access to a "drive" which the os sees as if it was a local HD. It has reasonably fast random access to this drive. The actual drive could be local or on a SAN.

We are trying to see if openstack is suitable for our applications. We have been told that openstack is for new generation of scalability aware apps, not typical 3 tier arcitectured apps.

We have seen that swift uses http to communicate with an object store. http would seem to be the last choice in a protocol for an OS and its applications to access the storage.

Given the http limitation, is it feasible to run mysql, or galera cluster, on openstack?