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Hi,

In Kilo cycle [1] was merged. It started passing AZ of a booted VM to Cinder to make volumes appear in the same AZ as VM. This is certainly a good approach, but I wonder how to deal with an use case when administrator cares about AZ of a compute node of the VM, but wants to ignore AZ of volume. Such case would be when fault tolerance of storage is maintained on another level - for example using Ceph replication and failure domains.

Normally I would simply disable AvailabilityZoneFilter in cinder.conf, but it turns out cinder-api validates if availability zone is correct [2]. This means that if Cinder has no AZs configured all requests from Nova will fail on an API level.

Configuring fake AZs in Cinder is also problematic, because AZ cannot be configured on a per-backend manner. I can only configure it per c-vol node, so I would need N extra nodes running c-vol,  where N is number of AZs to achieve that.

Is there any solution to satisfy such use case?

[1] https://review.openstack.org/#/c/157041
[2] https://github.com/openstack/cinder/blob/master/cinder/volume/flows/api/create_volume.py#L279-L282