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Troubleshoot Cinder Volumes

cinder block volume

Recently I’ve seen a few people online having issues with cinder-volume and when I’ve tried to help them they really don’t understand the underlying technollogy behind attaching volumes to Openstack instance.

To effectively debug cinder volumes you need atleast a basic understanding of LVM and ISCSI

Format Testing

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root@supermicro:~# nova list
+--------------------------------------+---------------+--------+----------------------------------------------------------------+
| ID                                   | Name          | Status | Networks                                                       |
+--------------------------------------+---------------+--------+----------------------------------------------------------------+
| 03ab114f-67a6-4a67-ba3f-144ed88cd08a | Octopess-blog | ACTIVE | core=11.11.11.4                                                |
| bb05b7f9-4b35-4bb6-b5dc-c03c4ce3900c | Open-VPN      | ACTIVE | core=11.11.11.3, 192.168.2.231; btfg-net-vlan30=192.168.10.231 |
+--------------------------------------+---------------+--------+----------------------------------------------------------------+

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