Create Volume in OpenStack

The following steps will guide you to create new volume on Openstack Dashboard.

1. Go to Project -> Volumes

2. Click Create Volume

3. You will get a dialogue as below:

   

4. Fill in the Volume Name, Description

5. You can select No source, empty volume (you can later attach instance to it)

    (or)

    You can select Image 

6. Use the default Type lvmdriver-1 provided

7. Specify the Size of the Volume (Recommended - 10GB to 20GB)

8. Use the default nova Availability zone

9. If you have not created any groups, leave it as No group

10. Click Create Volume

You will get volume creation status as:

Once created, you will find volume entry with status as Available.

If volume creation fails, status will be Error.

When an instance is attached to this volume, the status will be In-Use and Bootable will turn to Yes.