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OpenStack Essentials

You're reading from   OpenStack Essentials Untangle the complexity of OpenStack clouds through this practical tutorial

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Product type Paperback
Published in Aug 2016
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781786462664
Length 182 pages
Edition 2nd Edition
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Preface 1. RDO Installation FREE CHAPTER 2. Identity Management 3. Image Management 4. Network Management 5. Instance Management 6. Block Storage 7. Object Storage 8. Telemetry 9. Orchestration 10. Docker 11. Scaling Horizontally 12. Monitoring 13. Troubleshooting Index

Cinder

Cinder is the block storage management component. Volumes can be created and attached to instances. Then they are used on the instances as any other block device would be used. On the instance, the block device can be partitioned and a filesystem can be created and mounted. Cinder also handles snapshots. Snapshots can be taken of the block volumes or of instances. Instances can also use these snapshots as a boot source.

There is an extensive collection of storage backends that can be configured as the backing store for Cinder volumes and snapshots. By default, Logical Volume Manager (LVM) is configured. GlusterFS and Ceph are two popular software-based storage solutions. There are also many plugins for hardware appliances.

In Chapter 6, Block Storage, we'll take a look at creating and attaching volumes to instances, taking snapshots, and configuring additional storage backends to Cinder.

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OpenStack Essentials - Second Edition
Published in: Aug 2016
Publisher: Packt
ISBN-13: 9781786462664
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