About the Access Appliance integration with OpenStack Cinder architecture
Figure: Access Appliance integration with OpenStack Cinder architecture describes the Access Appliance integration with OpenStack Cinder architecture.
OpenStack instances are the individual virtual machines running on physical compute nodes. The compute service, Nova, manages the OpenStack instances.
Access Appliance provides two drivers to interact with the OpenStack Cinder service.
Access Appliance NFS-based Cinder driver
Access Appliance iSCSI-based Cinder driver