TOYOU NetStor TYDS Cinder driver

TOYOU NetStor TYDS series volume driver provides OpenStack Compute instances with access to TOYOU NetStor TYDS series storage systems.

TOYOU NetStor TYDS storage can be used with iSCSI connection.

This documentation explains how to configure and connect the block storage nodes to TOYOU NetStor TYDS series storage.

Driver options

The following table contains the configuration options supported by the TOYOU NetStor TYDS iSCSI driver.

Description of TOYOU NetStor TYDS configuration options

Configuration option = Default value

Description

tyds_clone_progress_interval = 3

(Integer) Interval (in seconds) for retrieving clone progress.

tyds_copy_progress_interval = 3

(Integer) Interval (in seconds) for retrieving copy progress.

tyds_http_port = 80

(Port(min=0, max=65535)) The port that connects to the http api.

tyds_pools = [pool01]

(List of String) The pool name where volumes are stored.

tyds_stripe_size = 4M

(String) Volume stripe size.

Supported operations

  • Create Volume.

  • Delete Volume.

  • Attach Volume.

  • Detach Volume.

  • Extend Volume

  • Create Snapshot.

  • Delete Snapshot.

  • Create Volume from Snapshot.

  • Create Volume from Volume (clone).

  • Create lmage from Volume.

  • Volume Migration (host assisted).

Configure TOYOU NetStor TOYOU TYDS iSCSI backend

This section details the steps required to configure the TOYOU NetStor TYDS storage cinder driver.

  1. In the cinder.conf configuration file under the [DEFAULT] section, set the enabled_backends parameter with the iSCSI back-end group.

    [DEFAULT]
enabled_backends = toyou-tyds-iscsi-1

  2. Add a backend group section for the backend group specified in the enabled_backends parameter.

  3. In the newly created backend group section, set the following configuration options:

    [toyou-tyds-iscsi-1]
# The TOYOU NetStor TYDS driver path
volume_driver = cinder.volume.drivers.toyou.tyds.tyds.TYDSDriver
# Management http ip of TOYOU NetStor TYDS storage
san_ip = 10.0.0.10
# Management http username of TOYOU NetStor TYDS storage
san_login = superuser
# Management http password of TOYOU NetStor TYDS storage
san_password = Toyou@123
# The Pool used to allocated volumes
tyds_pools = pool01
# Backend name
volume_backend_name = toyou-tyds-iscsi-1