OpenStack Seattle Meetup: Getting the Most out of Cinder

Hosted by John Griffith of SolidFire

Are you getting the most out of Cinder Block storage in OpenStack? We’ll talk about multiple Cinder topics as well as a live demo so there is always the chance this could go horribly wrong. We’ll cover:

OpenStack storage and common use cases

• Cinder Architecture

• Cinder Base Features and Vendor Unique Features

• Boot From Cinder Volume

• What’s new in Juno

• Cinder best practices & gotchas

• Backups, Snapshots, Clones

• Lab Demo

John Griffith is a Senior Software Engineer at SolidFire, where his primary responsibility is driving the OpenStack Cinder Block Storage Project. John is an open source expert serving as the project team lead for Cinder. He leads the team to provide first-class SolidFire product functionality and Quality of Service integration within OpenStack. John is also responsible for the development of a true Quality of Service storage appliance designed and built for the cloud.