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Cinder-oVirt-Driver

Cinder-oVirt Driver will make use of a Storage Domains in oVirt as a Storage Backend in Cinder.

Cinder-oVirt Driver Architecture diagram

Working of Cinder-oVirt Driver with Nova-oVirt Driver

Steps to use Cinder-oVirt Driver

1. Follow the steps to use the Nova-oVirt Driver
2. Add the ovirt folder to the volume/drivers/ folder of cinder package under python. Usually to the folder /usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/cinder/volume/drivers/
3. Add/change the below settings in cinder.conf

volume_driver = cinder.volume.drivers.ovirt.ovirtdriver.oVirtVolumeDriver

ovirt_engine_url = "https://[IP address of oVirt Engine]:443/api"

ovirt_engine_username = [Username for oVirt Engine]

ovirt_engine_password = [Password for oVirt Engine]

ovirt_engine_storagedomain = [StorageDomain in oVirt to be used by OpenStack]

3. Restart the cinder-volume, cinder-api and cinder-scheduler services; ensure there aren’t any errors logged.