The Cloud Block Storage Provider enables simple access to the Rackspace Cloud Block Storage Volumes as well as Cloud Block Storage Volume Snapshot services. Rackspace Cloud Block Storage is a block level storage solution that allows customers to mount drives or volumes to their Rackspace Next Generation Cloud Servers. The two primary use cases are (1) to allow customers to scale their storage independently from their compute resources, and (2) to allow customers to utilize high performance storage to serve database or I/O-intensive applications.

Highlights of Rackspace Cloud Block Storage include:

• Mount a drive to a Cloud Server to scale storage without paying for more compute capability.
• A high performance option for databases and high performance applications, leveraging solid state drives for speed.
• A standard speed option for customers who just need additional storage on their Cloud Server.

Note

Cloud Block Storage is an add-on feature to Next Generation Cloud Servers. Customers may not attach Cloud Block Storage volumes to other instances, like first generation Cloud Servers. Cloud Block Storage is multi-tenant rather than dedicated. When volumes are destroyed, Rackspace keeps that disk space unavailable until zeros have been written to the space to ensure that data is not accessible by any other customers. Cloud Block Storage allows you to create snapshots that you can save, list, and restore.

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