Detaching volumes from an instance
Ordinarily, Cinder volumes can only be attached to one instance at a time. Thus, you need to detach it from one instance before attaching it to another. To detach a volume, we will use another OpenStack client command called openstack server remove volume
.
Getting ready
To detach a volume from an instance, you will need the following:
- The
openstack
command-line client - An
openrc
file with appropriate credentials for the environment - The name or ID of the volume to detach
- The name or ID of the instance to detach the volume from
For our example, these values are as follows:
- Volume:
cookbook.volume
- Instance:
cookbook.test
- Mount point:
/mnt1
How to do it...
Carry out the following steps to detach a volume to an instance using ...
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