Resetting volume state

During the ongoing operation of your OpenStack cloud, you will occasionally encounter trouble where a Cinder volume will get stuck in an odd state. During the course of writing this chapter, the authors had a number of volumes getting stuck in the attaching status, after an instance failed to boot from them. This looks like the following:

openstack volume list -c Name -c Status -f table

Note

The cause of this was some fat-fingered typing while creating the boot from volume section!

Getting ready

To reset the status on a Cinder volume, you will need the following:

• An openrc file with appropriate credentials for the environment

• The openstack command-line client

• The cinder command-line client

• The name or ID of the volume

For the example that follows, we will be resetting the following volumes to available:

• cookbook.boot.volume

• cookbook.volume.boot.test

How to do it…

Resetting the status of a Cinder volume is done with the cinder command. Here the openstack set of commands covers...