Cinder is a block storage as service system for the Openstack cloud computing software suite. It is a direct replacement for nova-volume as a separate project. Cinder users LVM partitions of your volume servers in order to provide iSCSI permanent block storage devices for your virtual machines running on Nova.

This package contains the a client for the OpenStack Volume API. There's a Python API (the "cinderclient" module), and a command-line script ("cinder"). Each implements 100% of the OpenStack Volume API.

This package provides the Python 2.x module.