Chapter 7. Walking through a Block Storage deployment

This chapter covers

  • Storage node prerequisites
  • Understanding Logical Volume Manager (LVM)
  • Deploying OpenStack Block Storage
  • Managing LVM storage with OpenStack Block Storage
  • Testing OpenStack Block Storage

In chapter 5 you walked through the deployment of an OpenStack controller node, which provides the server-side management of OpenStack services. During the controller deployment, you set up controller-side configurations for several OpenStack core services including Networking, Compute, and Storage. The configurations for each core service were discussed in relation to the controller, but the services themselves weren’t discussed in detail.

In chapter 6 you deployed your first ...

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