Is creating a volume from an instance snapshot supported?

  • by Blue Box Support September 8th, 2015
  • Tags:

    • cinder

    • snapshot

Yes, provided you are running at least the 1.2.x version of our IBM Bluemix Private Cloud stack, and you have the appropriate packages installed on your dedicated Cinder node. Please contact our support team to learn whether that’s the case.

Here is an example how you would create a volume from an instance snapshot:

nova boot --flavor m1.small --image ubuntu-14.04.2 --nic net-id=b25625cc-2f6b-48c2-b740-08e2b0503a12 testinstance
nova stop testinstance
nova image-create --poll testinstance test-vol
nova image-list
cinder create --image-id 4bb4621c-ae8a-40d2-9e8f-9fe8495f07f1 --display-name test --availability-zone nova 160