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Dan Radez
Dan Radez
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Dan Radez

Dan Radez joined the OpenStack community in 2012 in an operator role. His experience is focused on installing, maintaining, and integrating OpenStack clusters. He has been given the opportunity to internationally present OpenStack content to a range of audiences of varying expertise. In January 2015, Dan joined the OPNFV community and has been working to integrate RDO Manager with SDN controllers and the networking features necessary for NFV. Dan's experience includes web application programming, systems release engineering, and virtualization product development. Most of these roles have had an open source community focus to them. In his spare time, Dan enjoys spending time with his wife and three boys, training for and racing triathlons, and tinkering with electronics projects.
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Backing storage


Now that you have seen how to use Cinder, you may be wondering where that volume that was created was stored. The cloud may be a facade of endless resources, but the reality is that there are actual physical resources that have to back the virtual resources of the cloud. By default, Cinder is configured to use LVM as its backing store. In Chapter 1, RDO Installation, Ceph was indicated for configuration. If that had not been done, Triple-O would have created a virtual disk and mounted it as a loopback device on the control node to use as the LVM physical volume to create a cinder-volumes volume group. The Cinder volume you just created would have been a logical volume in the cinder-volumes volume group. This is not an ideal place to store a virtual storage resource for anything more than a demonstration. Using a virtual disk mounted as a loopback device has very poor performance and will quickly become a bottleneck under load.

Cinder types

There are many different types of...

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Dan Radez

Dan Radez joined the OpenStack community in 2012 in an operator role. His experience is focused on installing, maintaining, and integrating OpenStack clusters. He has been given the opportunity to internationally present OpenStack content to a range of audiences of varying expertise. In January 2015, Dan joined the OPNFV community and has been working to integrate RDO Manager with SDN controllers and the networking features necessary for NFV. Dan's experience includes web application programming, systems release engineering, and virtualization product development. Most of these roles have had an open source community focus to them. In his spare time, Dan enjoys spending time with his wife and three boys, training for and racing triathlons, and tinkering with electronics projects.
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