openstack-manuals/doc/common/section_getstart_block-storage.xml
Sandro Tosi aef24a1847 Typos and spellings errors in common/ dir
This is another series of typo/spelling errors fixing, in particular for
common/ dir

Change-Id: I04c0d5b2fe7d72e120b82da9039d116ad4c802cc
Closes-Bug: #1356460
2014-08-14 10:42:15 +01:00

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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<section xmlns="http://docbook.org/ns/docbook"
xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude"
xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink"
version="5.0"
xml:id="block-storage-service">
<title>OpenStack Block Storage</title>
<para>The OpenStack Block Storage service (cinder) adds
persistent storage to a virtual machine. Block
Storage provides an infrastructure for managing volumes, and
interacts with OpenStack Compute to provide
volumes for instances. The service also enables management of
volume snapshots, and volume types.</para>
<para>The Block Storage service consists of the following
components:</para>
<variablelist>
<varlistentry>
<term><systemitem class="service">cinder-api</systemitem></term>
<listitem><para>Accepts API requests, and
routes them to the <systemitem class="service">cinder-volume</systemitem>
for action.</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><systemitem class="service">cinder-volume</systemitem></term>
<listitem><para>Interacts directly with the Block Storage
service, and processes such as the
<systemitem class="service">cinder-scheduler</systemitem>.
It also interacts with these processes through a message
queue. The <systemitem>cinder-volume service</systemitem>
responds to read and write requests sent to the Block
Storage service to maintain state. It can interact with a
variety of storage providers through a driver architecture.
</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><systemitem class="service">cinder-scheduler</systemitem>
daemon</term>
<listitem> <para>Selects the optimal storage provider node on
which to create the volume. A similar component to
the <systemitem class="service">nova-scheduler</systemitem>.
</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term>Messaging queue</term>
<listitem><para>Routes information between the Block Storage
processes.</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>
</variablelist>
</section>