[Openstack] Nova volume service and the nova client command

2012-05-01 Thread Lillie Ross-CDSR11
I've configured the nova_volume service using the the Ubuntu 12.04LTS packages, and am able to create/delete volumes using the euca2ools package. However, dashboard is not able to retrieve volume info or perform volume operations with the nova client. If I issue the 'nova volume-list'

Re: [Openstack] Nova volume service and the nova client command

2012-05-01 Thread Lillie Ross-CDSR11
OK, I'm an idiot. If I understand correctly, nova-volume provides the 'backend' service. So to run nova-volume on a separate node, I apparently have to also install the nova-api (and associated python-keystone modules)? Is this correct? Or will the backend messaging (rabbitmq) allow the

Re: [Openstack] Nova volume service and the nova client command

2012-05-01 Thread Lillie Ross-CDSR11
Once again, I think I'm answering my own question. Nova_volume works in conjunction with nova-api to talk to any number of iscsi targets that you might have configured in your cloud. Each target runs an instance of nova-volume. The URL for the volume service should point at the host(s)