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OpenStack Essentials
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OpenStack Essentials

by Dan Radez
May 2015
Beginner to intermediate
182 pages
4h 27m
English
Packt Publishing
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Creating and using block storage

Creating a block device is as simple as specifying the size and an optional name for the block device being created.

Create two volumes, one with a display name and another without:

control# cinder create 1
control# cinder create 1 --display_name data_vol

These two commands created two virtual block devices that are 1 GB of storage space each. To see the two devices, use Cinder's list command:

control# cinder list

The two volumes will be listed with information about them. As with the components already covered, the --all-tenants option can be passed as an administrative user to see a list of all volumes that are in Cinder:

control# cinder list --all-tenants

When volumes are created, they cycle through a progression ...

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