<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Dec 10, 2012 at 10:05 AM, Daniel Oliveira <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:dvalbrand@gmail.com" target="_blank">dvalbrand@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
Hello.<div><br></div><div>I've been "playing" around with OpenStack, when I noticed a section in the Dashboard where you can create/delete volume types. The problem is, I didn't understand their purpose, as when you create a new type, you only specify its name. Can anyone tell me what are volume types used for?</div>
<div><br></div><div>Thanks in advance<span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><br clear="all"><div><br></div>-- <br>My best regards,<div><br></div><div>Daniel Oliveira.</div><br>
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<br></blockquote></div>Hi Daniel,<div><br></div><div>The primary idea behind volume-types is a method to deal with multiple back-ends. The volume-type corresponds to a specific back-end, or perhaps enables different characteristics of a back-end. Hopefully that helps a bit.</div>
<div><br></div><div>John</div>