YADRO Cinder Driver

YADRO Cinder driver provides iSCSI support for TATLIN.UNIFIED storages.

Supported Functions

Basic Functions

  • Create Volume

  • Delete Volume

  • Attach Volume

  • Detach Volume

  • Extend Volume

  • Create Volume from Volume (clone)

  • Create Image from Volume

  • Volume Migration (host assisted)

Additional Functions

  • Extend an Attached Volume

  • Thin Provisioning

  • Manage/Unmanage Volume

  • Image Cache

  • Multiattach

  • High Availability

Configuration

Set up TATLIN.UNIFIED storage

You need to specify settings as described below for storage systems. For details about each setting, see the user’s guide of the storage system.

  1. User account

    Create a storage account belonging to the admin user group.

  2. Pool

    Create a storage pool that is used by the driver.

  3. Ports

    Setup data ETH ports you want to export volumes to.

  4. Hosts

    Create storage hosts and set ports of the initiators. One host must correspond to one initiator.

  5. Host Group

    Create storage host group and add hosts created on the previous step to the host group.

  6. CHAP Authentication

    Set up CHAP credentials for iSCSI storage hosts (if CHAP is used).

Set up YADRO Cinder Driver

Add the following configuration to /etc/cinder/cinder.conf:

[iscsi-1]
volume_driver=cinder.volume.drivers.yadro.tatlin_iscsi.TatlinISCSIVolumeDriver
san_ip=<management_ip>
san_login=<login>
san_password=<password>
tat_api_retry_count=<count>
api_port=<management_port>
pool_name=<cinder_volumes_pool>
export_ports=<port1>,<port2>
host_group=<name>
max_resource_count=<count>
auth_method=<CHAP|NONE>
chap_username=<chap_username>
chap_password=<chap_password>
volume_driver

Volume driver name.

san_ip

TATLIN.UNIFIED management IP address or FQDN.

san_login

TATLIN.UNIFIED user name.

san_password

TATLIN.UNIFIED user password.

tat_api_retry_count

Number of repeated requests to TATLIN.UNIFIED.

api_port

TATLIN.UNIFIED management port. Default: 443.

pool_name

TATLIN.UNIFIED name of pool for Cinder Volumes.

export_ports

Comma-separated data ports for volumes to be exported to.

host_group

TATLIN.UNIFIED host group name.

max_resource_count

Limit on the number of resources for TATLIN.UNIFIED. Default: 150

auth_method (only iSCSI)
Authentication method:

  • CHAP — use CHAP authentication (default)

chap_username, chap_password (if auth_method=CHAP)

CHAP credentials to validate the initiator.