1. 什么是cinder?
Cinder是openstack的快存储服务,为nava虚拟机和裸金属服务器、容器提供持久化存储能力。
来源于Nova-Volum的模块拆出来单独发展的。
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Cinder is the OpenStack Block Storage service for providing volumes to
Nova virtual machines, Ironic bare metal hosts, containers and more.
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Some of the goals of Cinder are to be/have:
Component based architecture: Quickly add new behaviors
Highly available: Scale to very serious workloads
Fault-Tolerant: Isolated processes avoid cascading failures
Recoverable: Failures should be easy to diagnose, debug, and rectify
Open Standards: Be a reference implementation for a community-driven
The method in which the storage is provisioned and consumed is determined by the Block Storage driver, or drivers in the case of a multi-backend configuration. There are a variety of drivers that are available: NAS/SAN, NFS, iSCSI, Ceph, and