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- __DEFAULT __ is a general cinder volume
- LUKS is for encrypted volumes. Ask to superc@cineca.it to be enabled to use this.
Size (GiB): The size of the volume in gibibytes (GiB).
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By using the Openstack dashboard, every user can create such volumes and then attach them to a virtual machine. . Due to a limitation of the crypto library, the maximum size of each volume is 15 TB.
The user can access the data stored in such LUKS volumes by login into the corresponding virtual machine. Only the users with authorisation to login into the virtual machine will access the data "in clear", even if it is encrypted by key.
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