About the Access Appliance integration with OpenStack Cinder
Cinder is a block storage service for OpenStack. Cinder provides the infrastructure for managing volumes in OpenStack. Cinder volumes provide persistent storage to guest virtual machines (known as instances) that manage OpenStack compute software.
Access Appliance is integrated with OpenStack Cinder, which provides the ability for OpenStack instances to use the storage hosted by Access Appliance.
Table: Mapping of OpenStack Cinder operations to Access Appliance
Operation in OpenStack Cinder | Operation in Access Appliance |
|---|---|
Create and delete volumes | Create and delete files. |
Attach and detach the volumes to virtual machines | This operation occurs on the OpenStack controller node. This operation is not applicable in Access Appliance. |
Create and delete snapshots of the volumes | Create and delete the snapshot files of the volume. |
Create a volume from a snapshot | This operation occurs on the OpenStack controller node. This operation is not applicable in Access Appliance. |
Copy images to volumes | This operation occurs on the OpenStack controller node. This operation is not applicable in Access Appliance. |
Copy volumes to images | This operation occurs on the OpenStack controller node. This operation is not applicable in Access Appliance. |
Extend volumes | Extending files. |
Note:
To perform these operations, you need to use the OpenStack Cinder commands, not the Access Appliance commands.