The Cinder project provides volume storage management for OpenStack deployments. Cinder volumes appear as block storage devices to instances started in an OpenStack environment. Cinder is also used by OpenStack for storage of instance snapshots and can be used to boot cloned images of existing running instances.
You can familiarize yourself with the Cinder install process by watching the video below.
Before we drop into the guide, I'd like to thank Dell Computers for donating the test hardware, and the awesome folks at Rackspace for writing and supporting the [Ch