February 2018
Intermediate to advanced
300 pages
6h 17m
English
Cinder also supports the NFS driver, which can use NFS as a storage backend. During the last few decades, most IT organizations have started using heavily shared storage that can be easily managed from one central point. Cinder provides a driver that maps its API to the NFS backend storage. It mounts the mapped NFS and creates and stores disk images on it so compute nodes require NFS mounts to access the image files:

The usage of the driver requires the existence of an NFS server already in place. Depending on your server vendor, NFS protocol should be supported. On the OpenStack block storage ...
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