Migration from nova-volumes to cinder-volumes: 1. upgrade your nova install to folsom 2. upgrade your nova database using nova-manage db sync 3. install the folsom version of cinder 4. create a cinder database using cinder-manage db sync 5. copy data from nova database using cinder-manage migrate import_db --src=$NOVA_SQL_CONN --dest=$CINDER_SQL_CONN 6. disable the nova-volume-api in enabled apis in /etc/nova/nova.conf sed -i "s/osapi_volume,// /etc/nova/nova.conf" 7. restart nova-api 8. start cinder-api