OpenStack Cinder

Overview

QuantaStor's Cinder module provides iSCSI block storage to OpenStack managed virtual machines. QuantaStor also supports Ceph based scale-out block storage and for those deployments the standard OpenStack Ceph Cinder module should be utilized. The following guild covers setup and configuration of the QuantaStor Cinder module for use with ZFS based Storage Pools which deliver iSCSI Storage Volumes to OpenStack. Note that we automate our testing using tempest and a DevStack based OpenStack environment. More information on the DevStack distribution of OpenStack is available here.

Setup

Before running ./stack.sh make sure to add these to your devstack/local.conf file. If there is no local.conf file, you can create your own, or copy the file in the devstack/samples/ directory (replace with values for your QuantaStor)

[[post-config|$CINDER_CONF]]
[DEFAULT]
volume_driver=cinder.volume.drivers.QuantaStor.QuantaStorDriver
qs_ip=192.168.0.101
qs_pool_id=fdb0f5c5-834a-1220-96a1-9a5d3f6664a9
qs_user = admin
qs_password = password

These two lines need to be added to the /opt/stack/cinder/cinder/volume/manager.py file:

'cinder.volume.drivers.QuantaStor.QuantaStorDriver':
'cinder.volume.drivers.QuantaStor.QuantaStorDriver',

For me it is right after line 96. It is in the "MAPPING = {" section with all the other drivers.

Also before running ./stack.sh, make sure that you run the setup with a non root user. This user needs to have password-less sudo privileges to make the process much easier. To create such a user, go through the following steps.

• In your linux session, type : 'cd devstack'

• Use a text editor to access /etc/sudoers like : 'sudo visudo /etc/sudoers'

• Find a line that should look similar, if not identical to this : '%root All=(ALL) ALL'

• Under that line, write this, making sure to replace 'user' with your username : 'user ALL=(ALL) NOPASSWD:ALL'

Things to Note

• DevStack runs a bunch of sessions in screens

• • http://www.rushiagr.com/blog/2013/06/05/linux-screens-in-devstack/

• Touch and chmod 777 the file "/var/log/qs_cinder.log" to have the QuantaStor driver also log to a seperate file

Feature Support

Feature	Havana	Icehouse	Juno	Kilo	QuantaStor / Feature Coverage
Volume Attach/Detach	Available	Available	Available	Available	Yes
Snapshot Create/Delete	Available	Available	Available	Available	Yes
Create Volume from Snapshot	Available	Available	Available	Available	Yes
Get Volume Stats	Available	Available	Available	Available	Yes
Copy Image to Volume	Available	Available	Available	Available	N/A
Copy Volume to Image	Available	Available	Available	Available	N/A
Clone Volume	Available	Available	Available	Available	Yes
Extend Volume	N/A	Available	Available	Available	Yes

Download QuantaStor OpenStack Cinder Driver

Select the correct version for your OpenStack deployment

Havana / Icehouse

Juno / Kilo

Liberty

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