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Openstack Volumes

Boot instance from volume

You can create a bootable volume from an existing image, volume, or snapshot. This procedure shows you how to create a volume from an image and use the volume to boot an instance.

List available images, noting the ID of the image that you wish to use.
```
openstack --os-cloud={cloud name} image list
```

Create a bootable volume from the chosen image.

openstack --os-cloud={cloud name} volume create \
--image {Image ID} --size 10 \
test-volume

Create a server, specifying the volume as the boot device.

openstack --os-cloud={cloud name} server create \
--flavor $FLAVOR --network $NETWORK \
--volume {Volume ID}\
--wait test-server

List volumes once again to ensure the status has changed to in-use and the volume is correctly reporting the attachment.
```
openstack --os-cloud={cloud name} volume list
```
```
openstack --os-cloud={cloud name} server volume list test-server
```
Additional Server Volume Commands

Add Volume to Server

openstack --os-cloud={cloud name} server add volume
    [--device <device>]
    [--tag <tag>]
    [--enable-delete-on-termination | --disable-delete-on-termination]
    <server>
    <volume>

Remove Volume from Server

openstack --os-cloud={cloud name} server remove volume <server> <volume>