The openstack cinder driver enables communication between openstack solidfire storage system. If youre not, you should take a look at the series of ken hui at rackspace put together, laying cinder. Here are some of the many ways weve ensured that solidfire just works in an openstack environment. Configuring the solidfire cinder driver takes four lines of code. Qos support for the solidfire drivers includes the ability to set the following capabilities in the openstack block storage api cinder. Openstack cinders policybased storage solidfire blog. 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. The image appears to download correctly from glance as i can see this debug in the logs just before the iscsi error. Solidfire has validated interoperability between the mirantis openstack platform and solidfires openstack block storage cinder driver. Netapps solidfire scaleout allflash storage platform is designed to deliver guaranteed storage performance to thousands of application workloads.
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. Test openstack with netapp solidfire driver for cinder using storage arrays structure. A lot of you may be familiar with cinder, the openstack block storage project thats been around for quite a while now. Solidfire advances block storage leadership with openstack. Essex or prior refers to support for cinder s predecessor, novavolume. Integrating openstack cinder with solidfire storage. The solidfire cluster is a high performance all ssd iscsi storage device that provides. Nov 14, 2011 the same driver is also available in novavolume, same entries are used in nf as cinder. The following support matrix reflects the drivers that are currently available or are available in cinders driver tree at the time of release. A key driver for the fico team was automation and integration with openstack as well as vmware technologies. Solidfire is one of the new breed of storage vendors building solutions off the back of.
Note that the version in the openstack repo is regularly maintained and unless youre looking for a prerelease update should be sufficient. Openstack private cloud drive unmatched solutions for openstack. Note this matrix replaces the old wiki based version of the cinder. The following support matrix reflects the drivers that are currently available or are available in cinder s driver tree at the time of release.
Solidfire deepens block storage support ahead of openstack. How to use openstack cinder for docker openstack superuser. Netapp unified driver for ontap with fibre channel. 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. Openstack block storage built for the most demanding environments.
The user can use information from the sfseries cluster to configure the driver by modifying the etc cinder cinder. When you configure the driver, you must match it with the appropriate openstack compute driver from vmware and both drivers. The red hat customer portal delivers the knowledge, expertise, and guidance available through your red hat subscription. 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. Cinder also supports drivers that allow volumes to be created and presented using enterprise storage solutions from vendors such as solidfire.
For this reason, the term driver is often used interchangeably with the alternative and perhaps more appropriate term provider. Through integration efforts customers can seamlessly provision. I am not sure where target iqn comes from, i assume that the solidfire driver cinder. Netapp, cisco and red hat announce openstack on flexpod. Upon openstack mitaka release 34 companies integrated their storage solutions with cinder. Highly scalable, costeffective block storage for your. Solidfire enables granular scalability, powerful simplicity, and consolidation with a single storage platform. Openstack cinder is a storage service for an open cloud computing service. The client library interacts with the rest service hosted on the flasharray to perform array management and satisfy cinder driver api requirements. 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. The solidfire appliance should now be available for use by openstack. Working with cinder volume type metadata platform9 docs. The nested projects are having a hierarchical structure, where each project may contain users and projects can be called subprojects. 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.
Paired with its partner design guide, this cvd enables an enterprisegrade openstack. If multiple svip addresses are configured, the query returns the default svip on the native virtual network. Element software enables allflash, scaleout cinder storage for netapp hci and solidfire. Jul 18, 2015 a partner recently commented that solidfire just works with openstack, out of the box. Nova, and our first cinder driver released with openstack folsom in 2012. Jan 25, 2016 openstacks cinder not only enables policybased storage but does so in a way that is well suited for largescale deployments. Netapp solidfire cinder driver red hat certified software red. With the spectrum scale driver, instances do not actually access a storage device at the block level. I configured the cinder driver for netapp with success, i can create volumes, instances using the nfs backend. The recommended volume driver for openstack block storage is the vmware vcenter vmdk driver. Nov 04, 20 the solidfire driver implementing the block storage cinder api has been certified for red hat enterprise linux openstack platform 3. Full netapp solidfire driver integration with latest. Follow the steps given below to integrate solidfire with cinder block storage.
Platform9s volume type metadata is another name for openstack cinder s volume type extra specs. Openstack block storage built for the most demanding. Netapp has many features that work in concert with our openstack drivers. 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. 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. John griffith, software engineer at solidfire, offers this twopart tutorial. 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.
The two companies will build off this initial effort with enhanced integration in future mirantis openstack. Simply enter the volume driver, san ip, san log in and password and voila youre configured. 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. Solidfire joins red hat openstack cloud infrastructure. Netapp solidfire cinder driver red hat certified software red hat customer portal.
Netapp delivers the industrys most comprehensive support for the cinder block and manila file storage services. The same driver is also available in novavolume, same entries are used in nf as cinder. Cinder volume extra specs are vendor and driver supplied metadata. Netapp data ontap drivers for openstack block storage cinder. Openstack cloud solutions openstack private cloud netapp. John griffith principal software engineer at solidfire. 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 manuals openstack configuration reference. As explained in our specification for guidelines for vendor drivers, the documentation team requests a contact person for each driver. Openstack cinder driver volume type metadata tutorial. Solidfire openstack configuration reference liberty. Integrating solidfire with cinder block storage platform9. Lvmvolumedriver note that some third party storage systems may maintain more detailed configuration documentation elsewhere. Solidfire cinder driver exception class solidfireapidataexception.
Paired with its partner design guide, this cvd enables an enterprisegrade openstack deployment, in an accelerated fashion, with little risk. The solidfire appliance should now be available for use by openstack for additional block storage. You must specify the login credentials for solidfire in the clarity ui when you authorize a. Solidfiredriver used by cinder is discovering this or generating it. But when i create a new instance using the horizon, the value from internal storage for the. Key netapp solidfirerelated features available in the openstack block storage cinder service include. In the queens release, three drivers support multiattach. By default, cinder uses volumes in a local volume group managed by the linux logical volume manager lvm. Intuitive and scalable block storage cinder solidfire provides industrybest cinder integration. Included backend drivers for openstack blockstorage services there are two main services in openstack blockstorage volume and backup that utilize vendor provided drivers. Solidfire cinder driver enables all openstack block storage features ability to set and maintain true qos levels on a pervolume basis. This includes all of the basic expected functionality. 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.
You can use information from the sfseries cluster to configure the driver. So the latest buzz in the storage industry is around policybased storage. 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. Integrating solidfire block storage with openstack cinder. Hi,now i failed to deploy the manila with netapp driver on share server management in. Jan 28, 2016 platform9s volume type metadata is another name for openstack cinders volume type extra specs. The cinder block storage service provides persistent block storage for openstack instances to use. For a tutorial on general cinder integration with platform9 refer here. Contribute to openstackcinder development by creating an account on github. Voting is open now until august 6th for presentation proposals for the openstack kilo summit in paris. 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.
The solidfire driver creates names for volumes on the back end using the format uuid cinder id. Technical report netapp solidfire storage for openstack. Netapp announces red hat openstack platform 8 on flexpod thepub. You can check the driver support matrix for updates on when additional drivers add support. Add a pure storage flasharray cinder driver to the openstack cinder package. Contact your vendor for more information if needed. Solidfire delivers the industrys most comprehensive openstack block storage.
We have dedicated resources that drive real contributions to the openstack community. 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 openstack software driver enables communication between the openstack software and a solidfire storage system. Flexpod sf with red hat openstack platform uses the netapp solidfire cinder driver. Rows are ordered alphabetically and are not intended to specify precedence. The common thread for openstack superusers solidfire blog. Solidfire has validated interoperability between the mirantis openstack platform and solidfire s openstack block storage cinder driver. Meet volume multiattach, a great new feature in openstack. 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.
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. Netapp flexpod sf reduces openstack deployment time. Designed for service provider scale and openstack environments. 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. Guarantee performance to every application in your cloud. Integrating solidfire with cinder block storage platform9 docs. May, 2014 so this driver is the reason that we see a new reference architecture being announced by solidfire today. You must specify the login credentials for solidfire in the clarity ui when you authorize a host for block.
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. Red hat, dell and solidfire and an openstack reference. This example shows how to enable the solidfire driver to integrate with a solidfire storage appliance. Nov 28, 2015 for a tutorial on general cinder integration with platform9 refer here. Netapp solidfire cinder driver red hat customer portal. Indication of a particular capability in folsom or later connotes cinder support. Accelerate your openstack deployment presented by solidfire and. Cinder, from its very inception, not only enabled policybased storage, but did so in a way that was well suited for largescale deployments. The pure storage driver will leverage a thin python rest client library. 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. This works well, but there is a possibility of a uuid collision for customers running multiple clouds against the same cluster.
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. You can integrate solidfire to work with cinder block storage in platform9 managed openstack. This example shows how to enable the solidfire driver to integrate with a solidfire. Sep 30, 2016 john griffith, software engineer at solidfire, offers this twopart tutorial.
Cinder multibacked netapp driver kilo ask openstack. When you use a single svip with openstack, the solidfire driver acquires the svip by querying the cluster. 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. Solidfire accounts are automatically created by the solidfire openstack driver as needed based on the project id. More about spectrum scale driver for openstack cinder. Essex or prior refers to support for cinders predecessor, novavolume.
The two companies will build off this initial effort with enhanced integration in future mirantis openstack releases. Configuring openstack block storage with solidfire youtube. Drivers listed in this support matrix are all merged upstream in the openstack github. 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.
Key concepts openstack deployment and operations guide. The spectrum scale openstack cinder driver, named gpfs. I checked every vendor website who contributed driver to cinder and below is the conclusion. Trove architecture as it relates to other openstack. Jul 05, 2017 how the spectrum scale openstack cinder driver works. 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. To address both of those needs, solidfire was able to demonstrate our cinder driver s tight integration into openstack. The netapp unified driver for ontap with iscsi is a driver interface from openstack cinder to netapp ontap storage controllers to accomplish provisioning.
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