We should add the command line version of this, because afaik there are things that can only be done with it. Following examples are from OSP13 and also apply to OSP16. For example creating a volume from a glance image where the glance image was created by Nova for a Cinder volume during an instance snapshot. This operation will only work if we are using microversion 3.46: cinder --os-volume-api-version 3.46 create --image-id And in microversion 3.47 we can pass a backup id (like we do with snapshots and images) to create a volume from a backup using the same create command: cinder --os-volume-api-version 3.47 create --backup-id Passing backup in the create operation may not be supported in RHOSP, but the image definitely operation is. Reported by: geguileo https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-us/red_hat_openstack_platform/13/html/storage_guide/ch-cinder#annotations:d2f083fc-bfe8-4a1a-a6fc-7106249d2ef5