The option to create Block Storage (cinder) volume transfers has been added to the 'Volumes' tab in the OpenStack dashboard. Volume transfers move ownership from one project to another. A donor creates a volume transfer, captures the resulting transfer ID and secret authentication key, and passes that information out of band to the recipient (such as by email or text message). The recipient accepts the transfer, supplying the transfer ID and authentication key. The ownership of the volume is then transferred from the donor to the recipient, and the volume is no longer visible to the donor. Note the following limitations of the Block Storage API for volume transfers and their impact on the UI design: 1. When creating a volume transfer, you cannot specify who the intended recipient will be, and anyone with the transfer ID and authentication key can claim the volume. Therefore, the dashboard UI does not prompt for a recipient. 2. Current volume transfers are only visible to the donor; users in other projects are unable to view these transfers. So, the UI does not include a project table to view and accept volume transfers, since the current transfers are not visible. Instead, the transfer information is added to the volume details, which are visible by the donor, and the volume state clearly reflects that a transfer has been created. The UI also cannot present to the recipient a pull-down list of transfers to accept. 3. The only time that the authorization key is visible to the donor is in the response from the creation of the transfer; after creation, it is impossible for even the donor to recover it. Since the donor must capture the transfer ID and authorization key in order to send it to the recipient, an extra form was created to present this information to the donor immediately after the transfer has been created.