OpenStack Southbound support

ViPR uses the OpenStack Block Storage (Cinder) Service to manage third-party block storage systems. When Cinder is discovered in ViPR as storage provider, it will discover all the supported storage systems and helps creating, managing volumes on them.

Supported storage systems:

ViPR operations are supported on any third-party block storage systems, tested by OpenStack, which use Fiber Channel or iSCSI protocols

Supported operations:

- Create Block volume

- Export Volume to Host

- Create a Block Volume for a Host

- Expand block volume

- Remove Volume by Host

- Remove Block Volume

- Create Full Copy

- Create Block Snapshot

- Create volume from snapshot

- Remove Block Snapshot