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Blueprint created at https://blueprints.launchpad.net/cinder/+spec/private-volume-types

Anyone who feels like implementing is welcome to take it and create a spec.

Tim

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Stuart Fox [mailto:stuart at demonware.net]
> Sent: 19 June 2014 21:36
> To: aloga at ifca.unican.es
> Cc: Tim Bell; openstack-operators at lists.openstack.org
> Subject: Re: [Openstack-operators] Private cinder volume types
> 
> 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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