Manage volumesA volume is a detachable block storage device, similar to a
USB hard drive. You can attach a volume to only one instance.
To create and manage volumes, you use a combination of nova
and cinder client commands.For an example of how to create and manage volumes, see the OpenStack End User Guide.This example creates a volume named
my-new-volume based on an image.Create a volumeList images, and note the ID of the image to use for
your volume:$nova image-list+--------------------------------------+---------------------------------+--------+--------------------------------------+
| ID | Name | Status | Server |
+--------------------------------------+---------------------------------+--------+--------------------------------------+
| 397e713c-b95b-4186-ad46-6126863ea0a9 | cirros-0.3.1-x86_64-uec | ACTIVE | |
| df430cc2-3406-4061-b635-a51c16e488ac | cirros-0.3.1-x86_64-uec-kernel | ACTIVE | |
| 3cf852bd-2332-48f4-9ae4-7d926d50945e | cirros-0.3.1-x86_64-uec-ramdisk | ACTIVE | |
| 7e5142af-1253-4634-bcc6-89482c5f2e8a | myCirrosImage | ACTIVE | 84c6e57d-a6b1-44b6-81eb-fcb36afd31b5 |
| 89bcd424-9d15-4723-95ec-61540e8a1979 | mysnapshot | ACTIVE | f51ebd07-c33d-4951-8722-1df6aa8afaa4 |
+--------------------------------------+---------------------------------+--------+--------------------------------------+List the availability zones, and note the ID of the
availability zone in which to create your
volume:$nova availability-zone-list+-----------------------+----------------------------------------+
| Name | Status |
+-----------------------+----------------------------------------+
| internal | available |
| |- devstack-grizzly | |
| | |- nova-conductor | enabled :-) 2013-07-25T16:50:44.000000 |
| | |- nova-consoleauth | enabled :-) 2013-07-25T16:50:44.000000 |
| | |- nova-scheduler | enabled :-) 2013-07-25T16:50:44.000000 |
| | |- nova-cert | enabled :-) 2013-07-25T16:50:44.000000 |
| | |- nova-network | enabled :-) 2013-07-25T16:50:44.000000 |
| nova | available |
| |- devstack-grizzly | |
| | |- nova-compute | enabled :-) 2013-07-25T16:50:39.000000 |
+-----------------------+----------------------------------------+Create a volume with 8 GBs of space. Specify the
availability zone and image, as follows:$cinder create 8 --display-name my-new-volume --image-id 397e713c-b95b-4186-ad46-6126863ea0a9 --availability-zone nova+---------------------+--------------------------------------+
| Property | Value |
+---------------------+--------------------------------------+
| attachments | [] |
| availability_zone | nova |
| bootable | false |
| created_at | 2013-07-25T17:02:12.472269 |
| display_description | None |
| display_name | my-new-volume |
| id | 573e024d-5235-49ce-8332-be1576d323f8 |
| image_id | 397e713c-b95b-4186-ad46-6126863ea0a9 |
| metadata | {} |
| size | 8 |
| snapshot_id | None |
| source_volid | None |
| status | creating |
| volume_type | None |
+---------------------+--------------------------------------+To verify that your volume was created successfully,
list the available volumes:$cinder list+--------------------------------------+-----------+-----------------+------+-------------+----------+-------------+
| ID | Status | Display Name | Size | Volume Type | Bootable | Attached to |
+--------------------------------------+-----------+-----------------+------+-------------+----------+-------------+
| 573e024d-5235-49ce-8332-be1576d323f8 | available | my-new-volume | 8 | None | true | |
| bd7cf584-45de-44e3-bf7f-f7b50bf235e3 | available | my-bootable-vol | 8 | None | true | |
+--------------------------------------+-----------+-----------------+------+-------------+----------+-------------+If your volume was created successfully, its status
is available. If its status is
error, you might have
exceeded your quota.Attach a volume to an instanceAttach your volume to a server:$nova volume-attach 84c6e57d-a6b1-44b6-81eb-fcb36afd31b5 573e024d-5235-49ce-8332-be1576d323f8 /dev/vdb+----------+--------------------------------------+
| Property | Value |
+----------+--------------------------------------+
| device | /dev/vdb |
| serverId | 84c6e57d-a6b1-44b6-81eb-fcb36afd31b5 |
| id | 573e024d-5235-49ce-8332-be1576d323f8 |
| volumeId | 573e024d-5235-49ce-8332-be1576d323f8 |
+----------+--------------------------------------+Note the ID of your volume.Show information for your volume:$cinder show 573e024d-5235-49ce-8332-be1576d323f8+------------------------------+------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| Property | Value |
+------------------------------+------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| attachments | [{u'device': u'/dev/vdb', u'server_id': u'84c6e57d-a6b1-44b6-81eb-fcb36afd31b5', u'id': u'573e024d-5235-49ce-8332-be1576d323f8', u'volume_id': u'573e024d-5235-49ce-8332-be1576d323f8'}] |
| availability_zone | nova |
| bootable | true |
| created_at | 2013-07-25T17:02:12.000000 |
| display_description | None |
| display_name | my-new-volume |
| id | 573e024d-5235-49ce-8332-be1576d323f8 |
| metadata | {} |
| os-vol-host-attr:host | devstack-grizzly |
| os-vol-tenant-attr:tenant_id | 66265572db174a7aa66eba661f58eb9e |
| size | 8 |
| snapshot_id | None |
| source_volid | None |
| status | in-use |
| volume_image_metadata | {u'kernel_id': u'df430cc2-3406-4061-b635-a51c16e488ac', u'image_id': u'397e713c-b95b-4186-ad46-6126863ea0a9', u'ramdisk_id': u'3cf852bd-2332-48f4-9ae4-7d926d50945e', u'image_name': u'cirros-0.3.1-x86_64-uec'} |
| volume_type | None |
+------------------------------+------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+The output shows that the volume is attached to the
server with ID
84c6e57d-a6b1-44b6-81eb-fcb36afd31b5,
is in the nova availability zone, and is
bootable.Delete a volumeTo delete your volume, you must first detach it from
the server.To detach the volume from your server, pass the
server ID and volume ID to the command, as
follows:$nova volume-detach 84c6e57d-a6b1-44b6-81eb-fcb36afd31b5 573e024d-5235-49ce-8332-be1576d323f8The volume-detach command does
not return any output.List volumes:$cinder list+--------------------------------------+-----------+-----------------+------+-------------+----------+-------------+
| ID | Status | Display Name | Size | Volume Type | Bootable | Attached to |
+--------------------------------------+-----------+-----------------+------+-------------+----------+-------------+
| 573e024d-5235-49ce-8332-be1576d323f8 | available | my-new-volume | 8 | None | true | |
| bd7cf584-45de-44e3-bf7f-f7b50bf235e3 | available | my-bootable-vol | 8 | None | true | |
+--------------------------------------+-----------+-----------------+------+-------------+----------+-------------+Note that the volume is now available.Now you can delete the volume, as follows:$cinder delete my-new-volumeThe delete command does not return any
output.List the volumes again, and note that the status of
your volume is deleting:$cinder list+--------------------------------------+-----------+-----------------+------+-------------+----------+-------------+
| ID | Status | Display Name | Size | Volume Type | Bootable | Attached to |
+--------------------------------------+-----------+-----------------+------+-------------+----------+-------------+
| 573e024d-5235-49ce-8332-be1576d323f8 | deleting | my-new-volume | 8 | None | true | |
| bd7cf584-45de-44e3-bf7f-f7b50bf235e3 | available | my-bootable-vol | 8 | None | true | |
+--------------------------------------+-----------+-----------------+------+-------------+----------+-------------+When the volume is fully deleted, it disappears from
the list of volumes:$cinder list+--------------------------------------+-----------+-----------------+------+-------------+----------+-------------+
| ID | Status | Display Name | Size | Volume Type | Bootable | Attached to |
+--------------------------------------+-----------+-----------------+------+-------------+----------+-------------+
| bd7cf584-45de-44e3-bf7f-f7b50bf235e3 | available | my-bootable-vol | 8 | None | true | |
+--------------------------------------+-----------+-----------------+------+-------------+----------+-------------+