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The Cinder driver is designed and tested to work with PowerFlex as storage backend. Follow the below steps for PowerFlex volume creation from OpenStack Horizon.
For more information, see Cinder Administration.
Features/Functions |
Dell EMC PowerFlex |
Create/delete volume |
Yes |
attach/detach volume |
Yes |
Extend/resize volume |
Yes |
Create/delete & attach/detach snapshot |
Yes |
Create volume from snapshot |
Yes |
Create boot volume/snapshot from boot volume |
Yes |
Create volume from volume |
Yes |
Create image from volume |
Yes |
Extend an Attached Volume |
Yes |
Thin & thick provisioning |
Yes |
Volume migration |
Yes |
Multi-Attach Support |
Yes |
Note: To verify Nova, Glance or operation related to any other OpenStack service using horizon dashboard, see OpenStack Dashboard User Documentation.