I'm not sure I follow here; this seems like something on the Manila side not Cinder or Nova. If I just create two volume (or 3 or 4) in Cinder and attach them to an instance that seems to work just fine: jgriffith@bdr75:~/devstack$ nova volume-attach 15fb3379-1811-46ca-bdc3-35cccafb1233 1bf11fab-2329-4506-9cdb-3bf4af8688bc +----------+--------------------------------------+ | Property | Value | +----------+--------------------------------------+ | device | /dev/vdb | | id | 1bf11fab-2329-4506-9cdb-3bf4af8688bc | | serverId | 15fb3379-1811-46ca-bdc3-35cccafb1233 | | volumeId | 1bf11fab-2329-4506-9cdb-3bf4af8688bc | +----------+--------------------------------------+ jgriffith@bdr75:~/devstack$ nova volume-attach 15fb3379-1811-46ca-bdc3-35cccafb1233 51dbb65b-5da8-435c-ae2d-895efac90dca +----------+--------------------------------------+ | Property | Value | +----------+--------------------------------------+ | device | /dev/vdc | | id | 51dbb65b-5da8-435c-ae2d-895efac90dca | | serverId | 15fb3379-1811-46ca-bdc3-35cccafb1233 | | volumeId | 51dbb65b-5da8-435c-ae2d-895efac90dca | +----------+--------------------------------------+ jgriffith@bdr75:~/devstack$ jgriffith@bdr75:~/devstack$ nova volume-attach 15fb3379-1811-46ca-bdc3-35cccafb1233 a7c1c1eb-246b-4531-95fb-d6068ef3313e +----------+--------------------------------------+ | Property | Value | +----------+--------------------------------------+ | device | /dev/vdd | | id | a7c1c1eb-246b-4531-95fb-d6068ef3313e | | serverId | 15fb3379-1811-46ca-bdc3-35cccafb1233 | | volumeId | a7c1c1eb-246b-4531-95fb-d6068ef3313e | +----------+--------------------------------------+ jgriffith@bdr75:~/devstack$ nova list; cinder list +--------------------------------------+------+--------+------------+-------------+---------------------+ | ID | Name | Status | Task State | Power State | Networks | +--------------------------------------+------+--------+------------+-------------+---------------------+ | 15fb3379-1811-46ca-bdc3-35cccafb1233 | test | ACTIVE | - | Running | private=192.168.0.5 | +--------------------------------------+------+--------+------------+-------------+---------------------+ +--------------------------------------+--------+----------+------+-------------+----------+--------------------------------------+ | ID | Status | Name | Size | Volume Type | Bootable | Attached to | +--------------------------------------+--------+----------+------+-------------+----------+--------------------------------------+ | 1bf11fab-2329-4506-9cdb-3bf4af8688bc | in-use | - | 1 | lvmdriver-1 | false | 15fb3379-1811-46ca-bdc3-35cccafb1233 | | 51dbb65b-5da8-435c-ae2d-895efac90dca | in-use | - | 1 | lvmdriver-1 | false | 15fb3379-1811-46ca-bdc3-35cccafb1233 | | 6d4107b1-78a4-45e1-92c2-05182f4aab38 | in-use | fedora24 | 10 | solidfire | true | | | a7c1c1eb-246b-4531-95fb-d6068ef3313e | in-use | - | 1 | lvmdriver-1 | false | 15fb3379-1811-46ca-bdc3-35cccafb1233 | | d8e6dda2-2f00-4db7-a101-fea3ad5f011a | in-use | cirros | 1 | solidfire | true | | +--------------------------------------+--------+----------+------+-------------+----------+--------------------------------------+ jgriffith@bdr75:~/devstack$ `````````````````` ssh onto the Instance and: $ ls /dev | grep vd vda vdb vdc vdd $ Our volume sare vdb, vdc, and vdd