Volume drivers¶
To use different volume drivers for the cinder-volume service, use the parameters described in these sections.
These volume drivers are included in the Block Storage repository. To set a volume
driver, use the volume_driver flag.
The default is:
volume_driver = cinder.volume.drivers.lvm.LVMVolumeDriver
Note that some third party storage systems may maintain more detailed configuration documentation elsewhere. Contact your vendor for more information if needed.
Driver Configuration Reference¶
- Ceph RADOS Block Device (RBD)
 - LVM
 - NFS driver
 - Datera drivers
 - Dell EMC PowerFlex Storage driver
 - Dell EMC PowerMax iSCSI and FC drivers
 - Dell EMC PowerStore driver
 - Dell EMC PowerVault ME4 Series Fibre Channel and iSCSI drivers
 - Dell EMC Unity driver
 - Dell EMC VNX driver
 - Dell EMC XtremIO Block Storage driver
 - Dell EMC SC Series Fibre Channel and iSCSI drivers
 - Fujitsu ETERNUS DX driver
 - Hedvig Volume Driver
 - Hitachi block storage driver
 - HPE MSA Fibre Channel and iSCSI drivers
 - HPE 3PAR, HPE Primera and HPE Alletra 9k Driver
 - Huawei volume driver
 - IBM FlashSystem 840/900 driver
 - IBM Spectrum Scale volume driver
 - IBM Storage Driver for OpenStack
 - IBM Spectrum Virtualize family volume driver
 - INFINIDAT InfiniBox Block Storage driver
 - Infortrend volume driver
 - Inspur AS13000 series volume driver
 - Inspur InStorage family volume driver
 - Intel Rack Scale Design (RSD) driver
 - Kaminario K2 all-flash array iSCSI and FC volume drivers
 - KIOXIA Kumoscale NVMeOF Driver
 - Lenovo Fibre Channel and iSCSI drivers
 - LINSTOR driver
 - MacroSAN Fibre Channel and iSCSI drivers
 - NEC Storage M series driver
 - NetApp unified driver
 - NexentaStor 4.x NFS and iSCSI drivers
 - NexentaStor 5.x NFS and iSCSI drivers
 - Nimble & Alletra 6k Storage volume driver
 - Open-E JovianDSS iSCSI driver
 - ProphetStor Fibre Channel and iSCSI drivers
 - Pure Storage iSCSI and Fibre Channel volume drivers
 - Quobyte driver
 - SandStone iSCSI Driver
 - Seagate Array Fibre Channel and iSCSI drivers
 - SolidFire
 - Storage Performance Development Kit driver
 - StorPool volume driver
 - Synology DSM volume driver
 - TOYOU ACS5000 iSCSI driver
 - Veritas ACCESS iSCSI driver
 - VMware VMDK driver
 - Virtuozzo Storage driver
 - Windows iSCSI volume driver
 - Windows SMB volume driver
 - Zadara Storage VPSA volume driver