With release 3.0.52 of the storage virtualization software, a native OpenStack cinder volume driver is available. Prior to the availability of the driver, in order to use vdisks for cinder volume the procedure would be to create an LVM volume on the vdisk and then use the LVM volume when creating a cinder volume. This is simple in itself and in the absense of a cinder volume driver for a storage array this would be the preferred method. However features like volume snapshots will be at the LVM volume level rather than at the driver level. With the cinder volume driver, each cinder volume corresponds to a vdisk. Creating volumes, snapshots etc are much simpler. There are a few features such as FC support, multipathing etc. still missing in the driver