Identify Block Device of Volume Attached to Instance
Problem
The block device of an attached/mounted volume for a particular instance needs to be identified.
Environment
- Platform9 Managed OpenStack - All Versions
- Nova
- Cinder
- Libvirt
Procedure
- Login to the KVM host.
- Identify the disk ID within the instance's XML file.
Example:
- Look for the 'source dev line' for the disk id. In the above example, it is ' 3624a9370ebcccad586e4418c0002d81b.'
- Run
lsblk
command to get all the disks and partitions.
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