Block storage service exposing persistent volumes to Nova VMs and Ironic bare-metal nodes via iSCSI, NVMe-oF, or vendor storage drivers — direct equivalent of EBS / Azure Managed Disks / Google Persistent Disk in the cross-provider block-storage mapping
Jurisdictional exposure
Sub-services (3)
Volume Types
Tiered storage profiles backed by different drivers (Ceph RBD, NetApp, Pure, vendor-specific SAN)
Snapshots
Point-in-time snapshots and full backups to Swift / external object storage
Replication
Cross-availability-zone and cross-cluster replication for DR
Tags
Equivalent services on other platforms
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