[openstack-community] usage of openstack information

Hi all,

I have been reading up on openstack as I am completely new to this. I have set up some test systems according to manuals found here and there.Now, I have a question about the possible use of openstack storage. I have seen that the normal provisioning of storage is meant to be for vm's created within openstack itself. This can then be block storage (cinder) or object storage.

Can somebody tell me if it is possible to use openstack to provision the same kind of storage to physical servers which are otherwise in no way connected to openstack or virtual machines created in systems like vmware?

I hope somebody can asnwer me this and maybe point me the way to test something like this.

Thanks in advance,

Rgds,

Randy