[openstack-dev] Cinder as generic volume manager

Jan Safranek jsafrane at redhat.com
Tue Jul 14 13:59:24 UTC 2015


On 07/10/2015 12:19 AM, Walter A. Boring IV wrote:
> On 07/09/2015 12:21 PM, Tomoki Sekiyama wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> Just FYI, here is a sample script I'm using for testing os-brick which
>> attaches/detaches the cinder volume to the host using cinderclient and
>> os-brick:
>>
>> https://gist.github.com/tsekiyama/ee56cc0a953368a179f9
>>
>> "python attach.py <volume-uuid>" will attach the volume to the executed
>> host and shows a volume path. When you hit the enter key, the volume is
>> detached.
>>
>> Note this is skipping "reserve" or "start_detaching" APIs so the volume
>> state is not changed to "Attaching" or "Detaching".
>>
>> Regards,
>> Tomoki
> 
> Very cool Tomoki.  After chatting with folks in the Cinder IRC channel
> it looks like we are going to look at going with something more like what
> your script is doing.   We are most likely going to create a separate
> command line tool that does this same orchestration, using cinder client, a new
> Cinder API that John Griffith is working on, and os-brick.

Very cool indeed, it looks exactly like as what I need.


Jan




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