Define Standard for the naming of volume types

Created by: josephineSei

Volumes are commonly used either as a root disk for a VM or to attach to a VM for additional disk space. Plus they are persistent, even after a VM is deleted. There are multiple storage solutions for volumes and also the performance and whether they are encrypted or not can vary. These differences and a few other things are defined in the volume type. However, there is always a default volume type which will be used and can vary. And there is no API endpoint in OpenStack so far, that can show you all defined properties of a volume type. Uses right now can only look at the names of the types and have to decide only with this in mind, which type they choose for their volumes.

Therefore we want to define a standard for the naming of volume types. The names should include performance aspects and optional encryption type and maybe other properties.

• Find consensus about the properties, which should be stated in the volume type name
• Write Standard for the naming of volume types