The two companies will build off this initial effort with enhanced integration in future mirantis openstack. Netapp unified driver for ontap with fibre channel. Openstack drivers on this page youll find a list of compute, storage, and networking drivers which were included in one or more of the integrated releases of openstack, such as newton. Committed to openstack solidfire was there at the beginning when cinder became a separate project from nova, and our first cinder driver released with openstack folsom in 2012. Hi,now i failed to deploy the manila with netapp driver on share server management in. All solidfire volumes are provisioned thin, space is consumed on write but only after passing through a series of inline data reduction processes within the solidfire cluster. Solidfire driver integrated into rpc, no additional features licenses required solidfire s certification is a significant step in providing enterprises with the type of storage options they need to host mission critical applications in their openstack based clouds. Users can use these as extra filter criteria for the block storage scheduler to use for determining which block storage host should fulfill a volume creation request. Solidfire deepens block storage support ahead of openstack. Included backend drivers for openstack blockstorage services there are two main services in openstack blockstorage volume and backup that utilize vendor provided drivers.
By aggregating information that was previously spread out over various pages, we hope to make it easier to quickly determine the status of each driver. Here are some of the many ways weve ensured that solidfire just works in an openstack environment. To address both of those needs, solidfire was able to demonstrate our cinder driver s tight integration into openstack. Netapp solidfire cinder driver red hat certified software red hat customer portal. Rows are ordered alphabetically and are not intended to specify precedence. The following support matrix reflects the drivers that are currently available or are available in cinder s driver tree at the time of release. The solidfire driver creates names for volumes on the back end using the format uuid cinder id. In the case of cinder driver implementations, the software provides provisioning and other manipulation of storage devices but does not lay in the path of data io.
The user can use information from the sfseries cluster to configure the driver by modifying the etc cinder cinder. Note this matrix replaces the old wiki based version of the cinder. The two companies will build off this initial effort with enhanced integration in future mirantis openstack releases. Nova, and our first cinder driver released with openstack folsom in 2012.
The solidfire cluster is a high performance all ssd iscsi storage device that provides. Designed for service provider scale and openstack environments. Cinder multibacked netapp driver kilo ask openstack. Integrating solidfire with cinder block storage platform9. Solidfire is one of the new breed of storage vendors building solutions off the back of. Solidfire advances block storage leadership with openstack. Paired with its partner design guide, this cvd enables an enterprisegrade openstack deployment, in an accelerated fashion, with little risk. Element software enables allflash, scaleout cinder storage for netapp hci and solidfire. Netapp solidfire cinder driver red hat certified software red.
Solidfire has validated interoperability between the mirantis openstack platform and solidfires openstack block storage cinder driver. This example shows how to enable the solidfire driver to integrate with a solidfire. This repo includes the current solidfire driver for the openstack block storage project cinder, as well as a brief description on how to install and use it. Upon openstack mitaka release 34 companies integrated their storage solutions with cinder. The solidfire appliance should now be available for use by openstack. Jun 12, 20 through this collaboration, and the red hat openstack certification program, customers deploying solidfire s storage platform with red hats openstack distribution will get guaranteed block. Netapp delivers the industrys most comprehensive support for the cinder block and manila file storage services.
The below matrix indicates whether or not a particular feature is supported, and additionally the first release of openstack that it is supported in. Openstack cinder using solidfire block storage with platform9 openstack cinder also supports drivers that allow volumes to be created and presented using enterprise storage solutions from vendors such as solidfire. May, 2014 so this driver is the reason that we see a new reference architecture being announced by solidfire today. Guarantee performance to every application in your cloud. Nov 04, 20 the solidfire driver implementing the block storage cinder api has been certified for red hat enterprise linux openstack platform 3. If youre not, you should take a look at the series of ken hui at rackspace put together, laying cinder. Note that the version in the openstack repo is regularly maintained and unless youre looking for a prerelease update should be sufficient. I am not sure where target iqn comes from, i assume that the solidfire driver cinder. I configured the cinder driver for netapp with success, i can create volumes, instances using the nfs backend. Netapps solidfire scaleout allflash storage platform is designed to deliver guaranteed storage performance to thousands of application workloads. Openstack cinder is a storage service for an open cloud computing service. Note this matrix replaces the old wiki based version of the cinder support matrix as there was no way to ensure the wiki version was properly maintained. When you configure the driver, you must match it with the appropriate openstack compute driver from vmware and both drivers.
The image appears to download correctly from glance as i can see this debug in the logs just before the iscsi error. Sep 30, 2016 john griffith, software engineer at solidfire, offers this twopart tutorial. You can use information from the sfseries cluster to configure the driver. Cinder also supports drivers that allow volumes to be created and presented using enterprise storage solutions from vendors such as solidfire. More about spectrum scale driver for openstack cinder. Test openstack with netapp solidfire driver for cinder using storage arrays structure. Paired with its partner design guide, this cvd enables an enterprisegrade openstack. Netapp has many features that work in concert with our openstack drivers. Openstack cinders policybased storage solidfire blog.
The cinder block storage service provides persistent block storage for openstack instances to use. This includes all of the basic expected functionality. Openstack manuals openstack configuration reference. Openstack block storage built for the most demanding environments. Solidfire cinder driver enables all openstack block storage features ability to set and maintain true qos levels on a pervolume basis. Openstack private cloud drive unmatched solutions for openstack. Openstack solidfire cinder driver cinder volume compute instance nova cinder swift glance guest agent troveapi trovetask manager troveconductor db message bus guest image sqlnosql data db backup glance images solidfire api be fueled by solidfire. Netapp announces red hat openstack platform 8 on flexpod thepub. Solidfire delivers the industrys most comprehensive openstack block storage. A key driver for the fico team was automation and integration with openstack as well as vmware technologies. Solidfire has validated interoperability between the mirantis openstack platform and solidfire s openstack block storage cinder driver. The openstack cinder driver enables communication between openstack solidfire storage system. Simply enter the volume driver, san ip, san log in and password and voila youre configured.
Highly scalable, costeffective block storage for your. You can check the driver support matrix for updates on when additional drivers add support. For this reason, the term driver is often used interchangeably with the alternative and perhaps more appropriate term provider. Add a pure storage flasharray cinder driver to the openstack cinder package. This works well, but there is a possibility of a uuid collision for customers running multiple clouds against the same cluster. Integrating solidfire block storage with openstack cinder. Solidfire cinder driver exception class solidfireapidataexception. A lot of you may be familiar with cinder, the openstack block storage project thats been around for quite a while now. Jan 25, 2016 openstacks cinder not only enables policybased storage but does so in a way that is well suited for largescale deployments. On this page youll find a list of compute, storage, and networking drivers which were included in one or more of the integrated releases of openstack, such as newton. Key netapp solidfirerelated features available in the openstack block storage cinder service include. The following support matrix reflects the drivers that are currently available or are available in cinders driver tree at the time of release.
John griffith, software engineer at solidfire, offers this twopart tutorial. Working with cinder volume type metadata platform9 docs. Solidfire enables granular scalability, powerful simplicity, and consolidation with a single storage platform. Netapp solidfire cinder driver red hat customer portal. Key concepts openstack deployment and operations guide. Openstack block storage built for the most demanding.
Lvmvolumedriver note that some third party storage systems may maintain more detailed configuration documentation elsewhere. Solidfiredriver used by cinder is discovering this or generating it. In the queens release, three drivers support multiattach. Essex or prior refers to support for cinder s predecessor, novavolume. We have dedicated resources that drive real contributions to the openstack community. The same driver is also available in novavolume, same entries are used in nf as cinder. Contribute to openstackcinder development by creating an account on github. Nov 28, 2015 for a tutorial on general cinder integration with platform9 refer here. Jan 28, 2016 platform9s volume type metadata is another name for openstack cinders volume type extra specs. The recommended volume driver for openstack block storage is the vmware vcenter vmdk driver. The common thread for openstack superusers solidfire blog.
The proposal is to develop a new quota driver called nestedquotadriver, by extending the existing dbquotadriver which will allow enforcing quotas in nested projects in openstack. Netapp data ontap drivers for openstack block storage cinder. Integrating openstack cinder with solidfire storage. Solidfire expands integration with openstack block storage. Platform9s volume type metadata is another name for openstack cinder s volume type extra specs. As explained in our specification for guidelines for vendor drivers, the documentation team requests a contact person for each driver. John griffith principal software engineer at solidfire.
Meet volume multiattach, a great new feature in openstack. Solidfire joins red hat openstack cloud infrastructure. With the spectrum scale driver, instances do not actually access a storage device at the block level. Accelerate your openstack deployment presented by solidfire and. The client library interacts with the rest service hosted on the flasharray to perform array management and satisfy cinder driver api requirements. Apr 24, 20 watch as john griffith, a software engineer at solidfire and technical lead for the block storage project in openstack, demonstrates how to easily configure simply access four lines in the. The pure storage driver will leverage a thin python rest client library. Full netapp solidfire driver integration with latest.
Indication of a particular capability in folsom or later connotes cinder support. Netapp, cisco and red hat announce openstack on flexpod. By default, cinder uses volumes in a local volume group managed by the linux logical volume manager lvm. Qos support for the solidfire drivers includes the ability to set the following capabilities in the openstack block storage api cinder. Nov 14, 2011 the same driver is also available in novavolume, same entries are used in nf as cinder. So the latest buzz in the storage industry is around policybased storage. You must specify the login credentials for solidfire in the clarity ui when you authorize a host for block. Flexpod sf with red hat openstack platform uses the netapp solidfire cinder driver. Essex or prior refers to support for cinders predecessor, novavolume. Voting is open now until august 6th for presentation proposals for the openstack kilo summit in paris. If you have multiple openstack cloud instances attached to a single solidfire system, netapp recommends that you change this variable for each instance using the solidfire system. Contact your vendor for more information if needed.
Netapp data ontap drivers for openstack block storage cinder netapp drivers for clustered data ontap and data ontap operating in 7mode are now offered in a single, unified driver in the grizzly and prior releases, the drivers were written in two separate variants, namely, iscsi and nfs drivers. Configuring the solidfire cinder driver takes four lines of code. For a tutorial on general cinder integration with platform9 refer here. While there are lots of great proposals out there covering a wide variety of topics, wed like to call your attention to several proposals that involve openstack and netapp, including technology.
I checked every vendor website who contributed driver to cinder and below is the conclusion. Through integration efforts customers can seamlessly provision. Integrating solidfire with cinder block storage platform9 docs. Openstack cloud solutions openstack private cloud netapp. You can use the new attachdetach api to attach a volume multiple times in case the cinder back end you chose reports support for the functionality. Netapp flexpod sf reduces openstack deployment time. Solidfire was there at the beginning when cinder became a separate project from nova, and our first cinder driver released with openstack folsom in 2012. Apr 16, 20 enhanced features supported by solidfire s openstack driver in this release include qos settings via volume types, boot from volumes, and multibackend support allowing for the seamless addition. Follow the steps given below to integrate solidfire with cinder block storage.
Trove architecture as it relates to other openstack. If multiple svip addresses are configured, the query returns the default svip on the native virtual network. Apr 25, 2016 finally, we also take advantage of the openstack rally project benchmarkasaservice to demonstrate the advantages and value proposition of using netapp storage and netapp software our unified cinder driver for openstack together for a higher performant, space efficient storage foundation for your openstack cloud. But when i create a new instance using the horizon, the value from internal storage for the.
Whether you are already running openstack, or are considering running it, the security of your data should always be at the forefront of your thoughts. The solidfire appliance should now be available for use by openstack for additional block storage. The netapp unified driver for ontap with iscsi is a driver interface from openstack cinder to netapp ontap storage controllers to accomplish provisioning. Intuitive and scalable block storage cinder solidfire provides industrybest cinder integration.
This example shows how to enable the solidfire driver to integrate with a solidfire storage appliance. Technical report netapp solidfire storage for openstack. The nested projects are having a hierarchical structure, where each project may contain users and projects can be called subprojects. Jul 05, 2017 how the spectrum scale openstack cinder driver works. Drivers listed in this support matrix are all merged upstream in the openstack github. You can integrate solidfire to work with cinder block storage in platform9 managed openstack. The openstack software driver enables communication between the openstack software and a solidfire storage system.
Openstack cinder driver volume type metadata tutorial. The solidfire driver is a tightly integrated openstack block storage driver implementing all of the exposed functionality available from the openstack block storage api. The spectrum scale openstack cinder driver, named gpfs. Cinder, from its very inception, not only enabled policybased storage, but did so in a way that was well suited for largescale deployments. You must specify the login credentials for solidfire in the clarity ui when you authorize a. Configuring openstack block storage with solidfire youtube. The red hat customer portal delivers the knowledge, expertise, and guidance available through your red hat subscription. Red hat, dell and solidfire and an openstack reference.
Solidfire accounts are automatically created by the solidfire openstack driver as needed based on the project id. How to use openstack cinder for docker openstack superuser. Cinder volume extra specs are vendor and driver supplied metadata. You must specify the login credentials for solidfire in the clarity ui when you authorize a host for block storage, or edit a host to configure it for block storage. Solidfire openstack configuration reference liberty. By default a platform9 managed openstack host enabled with block storage role uses cinder driver for lvm linux logical volume manager.
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