Part of "What's New in Havana" Webinar, this slideshow features what's new in Cinder

1. What’s New In
OpenStack
Havana
Webcast
October 2013

2. OpenStack
Block Storage
Cinder
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3. Cinder
Volume migration
Admin API to migrate a volume to a different
Cinder back-end
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cinder migrate <volume_id> <target os-vol-host-attr:host>
• Extend the size of an existing volume
cinder extend <vol-id> <newsize>
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4. Cinder
Transfer a volume from one tenant/project to
another
cinder transfer-create <volume_id> # Tenant A
cinder transfer-accept <transfer_id> <auth_key> # Tenant B
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5. Cinder
• Ceph driver to backup service
• Differential backups from Ceph to Ceph
• Enabled in cinder.conf
backup_driver=cinder.backup.driver.ceph
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6. Cinder
Improved drivers/support
• Backup from any iSCSI device without internal
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optimizations
New Windows Storage Server driver features
Optimized volume migration for IBM Storwize
driver
IBM Tivoli Storage Manager (TSM) backup driver
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7. Cinder
Improved drivers/support (cont’d)
• Added Fibre Channel drivers for Huawei storage
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systems (improved)
Added a NFS Volume Driver to support Nexenta
storage in Cinder (improved)
Dell EqualLogic volume driver (new)
VMware VMDK cinder driver (new)
IBM General Parallel File System (GPFS) (new)
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