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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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Creating and using block storage


Creating a block device is as simple as specifying the size and a name for the block device being created:

undercloud# openstack volume create --size 1 my_volume

This command created a virtual block device that is 1 GB of storage space. To see the devices, use the list command:

undercloud# openstack volume list

The volume will be listed with information about it. As with the components already covered, the admin user can see all volumes that are in Cinder and non-privileged users see only the Cinder volumes in their project. When volumes are created, they cycle through a progression of states that indicate the status of the new block device. When the status reaches Available, it is ready to be attached to an instance.

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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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