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