nova/doc/source/admin/manage-volumes.rst

Manage volumes

Depending on the setup of your cloud provider, they may give you an endpoint to use to manage volumes, or there may be an extension under the covers. In either case, you can use the openstack CLI to manage volumes.

openstack volume commands

Command	Description
server add volume	Attach a volume to a server.
volume create	Add a new volume.
volume delete	Remove or delete a volume.
server remove volume	Detach or remove a volume from a server.
volume list	List all the volumes.
volume show	Show details about a volume.
snapshot create	Add a new snapshot.
snapshot delete	Remove a snapshot.
snapshot list	List all the snapshots.
snapshot show	Show details about a snapshot.
volume type create	Create a new volume type.
volume type delete	Delete a specific flavor
volume type list	Print a list of available 'volume types'.

For example, to list IDs and names of volumes, run:

$ openstack volume list
+--------+--------------+-----------+------+-------------+
| ID     | Display Name | Status    | Size | Attached to |
+--------+--------------+-----------+------+-------------+
| 86e6cb | testnfs      | available |    1 |             |
| e389f7 | demo         | available |    1 |             |
+--------+--------------+-----------+------+-------------+