[Openstack-operators] Private cinder volume types

Stuart Fox stuart at demonware.net
Thu Jun 19 19:35:57 UTC 2014


These seem like good candidates for development, has anyone actually submitted blueprints for them?


On Jun 6, 2014, at 12:40 AM, Álvaro López García <alvaro.lopez.garcia at cern.ch> wrote:

> Hi Tim.
> 
> On Fri 06 Jun 2014 (06:20), Tim Bell wrote:
>> 
>> Does anyone know if there is support for private cinder volume types ?
>> 
>> The use case is within a private cloud where some projects are allowed to ask for high speed volumes. However, the standard projects are not allocated quotas for these (and will not be in future).
>> 
>> However, in Horizon or the CLI, these volume types are visible even though the use of them is not possible.
>> 
>> For images, there is a possibility to mark an image as private and it is not visible at all to other projects.
> 
> Not only images, but also flavors can be marked as private and grant
> access only to the needed projects so I think same approach could be
> used in cinder, using the volume types that are already there.
> 
>> Would others be interested in a similar facility for volume types (or does it exist already :) ?
> 
> Yes, we have the same same use-case, so we would be interested in
> this feature but not only for volumes: flavors and images can be marked as
> private already, volumes should have this feature but also networks
> (floating IP pools) should be considered.
> 
> Regards,
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