Conversion of Instance's Ephemeral disk to Persistent disk

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Issue

  • A RHEL instance which was built with an Ephemeral boot disk, for reasons need to convert the/dev/vda disk to a Persistent attached volume that we can boot from.

  • Are there any special tools to accommodate this, beyond, taking a snapshot of the instance, creating a volume from the snapshot, launching a new instance, and migrating any other disks over?

  • Ideally, would be able to create the volume from the snapshot, somehow detach the ephemeral /dev/vda from the instance and replace it with the persistent volume if that makes sense.

Environment

  • Red Hat OpenStack Platform 13.0

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