Slides used in John Griffith's cinder project update presentation at the OpenStack Grizzly Summit.

2. State of OpenStack Block Storage
John Griffith: Project Technical lead
IRC: jgriffith
LaunchPad: john-griffith

3. Cinder?
OpenStack Block Storage Service
Extraction of Nova-Volume
It's own core project
Nova-Volume and Cinder are equivalent in Folsom

4. New Features
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Create volume from image
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NFS files as Virtual Block Devices
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Persistent iSCSI Targets
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Python-cinderclient
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Improved API response data

5. What went well
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Great participation/support
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Rackspace
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Nebula
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Cannonical
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IBM
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NetApp
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RedHat
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…...
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Nova-Volume equivalency
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Core Status
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So far so good

6. What didn't :(
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Bugs not found until late in the cycle
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Documentation
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Time!!

7. What's Next
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QoS
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Volume State Implementation
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API improvements
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Secure Attach
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Multiple Back-End driver support
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Better definition/use of Types and Extra Specs
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Retention of meta-data for Glance images on bootable volumes
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Backup to Object Store
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Volume resize
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Xen enhancements

8. Questions?