April 2018
Intermediate to advanced
280 pages
8h 37m
English
A simple volume creation can be tested by creating a volume from the OpenStack dashboard or using the cinder command line.
Invoke the following command to create a cinder volume with size 1 GB:
# cinder create 1
If the command exits silently, it typically means that the volume was created successfully. However, if you encounter an error, the first thing to check is whether the underlying LVM has a volume group named cinder-volumes. This error is clearly evident in the /var/log/cinder/scheduler.log file:
#vgdisplay
This should show you LVM volume groups present on the cinder host.
Another common issue encountered while creating a volume is that the volume gets stuck in the Creating state and doesn't respond. OpenStack doesn't ...