Chapter 6. Cinder Block Storage Service
In this chapter, we will cover the following:
- Configuring Cinder with the logical volume management backend driver
- Configuring Cinder with the Ceph RADOS block device backend driver
- Configuring Cinder with the network file system backend driver
- Configuring Cinder with the Ceph RBD backup driver
- Configuring Cinder with multiple backends
- Configuring Cinder scheduler filters and weighers
Introduction
The Cinder block storage service provides block storage volumes as a service. Cinder allows creating block-device volumes and attaches them to Nova virtual machine instances. Cinder supports multiple vendors backend drivers which allows utilizing various storage devices, such as local logical volume management (LVM), ...
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