Infortrend Manila driver¶
The Infortrend Manila driver provides NFS and CIFS shared file systems to OpenStack.
Requirements¶
To use the Infortrend Manila driver, the following items are required:
GS/GSe Family firmware version v73.1.0-4 and later.
Configure at least one channel for shared file systems.
Restrictions¶
The Infortrend manila driver has the following restrictions:
Only IP access type is supported for NFS.
Only user access type is supported for CIFS.
Only file-level data service channel can offer the NAS service.
Driver configuration¶
On manila-share
nodes, set the following in your
/etc/manila/manila.conf
, and use the following options to configure it:
Driver options¶
Configuration option = Default value |
Description |
---|---|
[DEFAULT] |
|
|
(String) Infortrend NAS ip. It is the ip for management. |
|
(String) Infortrend NAS username. |
|
(String) Password for the Infortrend NAS server. This is not necessary if infortrend_nas_ssh_key is set. |
|
(String) SSH key for the Infortrend NAS server. This is not necessary if infortrend_nas_password is set. |
|
(String) Infortrend nas pool name list. It is separated with comma. |
|
(String) Infortrend channels for file service. It is separated with comma. |
|
(Integer) CLI timeout in seconds. |
Back-end configuration example¶
[DEFAULT]
enabled_share_backends = ift-manila
enabled_share_protocols = NFS, CIFS
[ift-manila]
share_backend_name = ift-manila
share_driver = manila.share.drivers.infortrend.driver.InfortrendNASDriver
driver_handles_share_servers = False
infortrend_nas_ip = FAKE_IP
infortrend_nas_user = FAKE_USER
infortrend_nas_password = FAKE_PASS
infortrend_share_pools = pool-1, pool-2
infortrend_share_channels = 0, 1