What’s New In OpenStack Havana

Webcast October 2013

OpenStack Block Storage

Cinder

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Cinder

Volume migration •  Admin API to migrate a volume to a different

Cinder back-end

cinder migrate <volume_id> <target os-vol-host-attr:host>

•  Extend the size of an existing volume

cinder extend <vol-id> <newsize>

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Cinder

Transfer a volume from one tenant/project to another

cinder transfer-create <volume_id> # Tenant A

cinder transfer-accept <transfer_id> <auth_key> # Tenant B

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Cinder

•  Ceph driver to backup service •  Differential backups from Ceph to Ceph

•  Enabled in cinder.conf backup_driver=cinder.backup.driver.ceph

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Cinder

Improved drivers/support

•  Backup from any iSCSI device without internal optimizations

•  New Windows Storage Server driver features •  Optimized volume migration for IBM Storwize

driver •  IBM Tivoli Storage Manager (TSM) backup driver

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Cinder

Improved drivers/support (cont’d)

•  Added Fibre Channel drivers for Huawei storage systems (improved)

•  Added a NFS Volume Driver to support Nexenta storage in Cinder (improved)

•  Dell EqualLogic volume driver (new) •  VMware VMDK cinder driver (new) •  IBM General Parallel File System (GPFS) (new)

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