Last Release Date: | 2014/12/15 |
Technology: | IaaS is Infrastructure as service, DWH |
OpenStack Cinder is service of block data storage[1].
Cinder is permanent storage, it can be provided as additional volume (disk D: or E: in Microsoft Windows Server) which the virtual machine can attach/appoint.
It not local storage where OS with the loader (as disk C is installed: in Windows).
In an IaaS-cloud distinguish storages of two types:
- storage of level of files
- storage of level of blocks.
The last is used by such high-performance systems as Exchange, DBMS of SQL servers or any other application meeting dynamically changing requirements to data. As a rule, it is expensive storages with a possibility of quick access.
All leading vendors storage systems work with Cinder. Using Cinder, it is possible to create, attach/unfasten VM, that a copy. Cinder can also work with network file systems of the general access on the platform Unix/Linux.