Infortrend Manila driver

The Infortrend Manila driver provides NFS and CIFS shared file systems to Openstack.

Requirements

To use the Infortrend Manila driver, the followings are required:

• GS/GSe Family firmware version v73.1.0-4 and later.
• Configure at least one channel for shared file systems.

Supported shared filesystems and operations

This driver supports NFS and CIFS shares.

The following operations are supported:

• Create a share.

• Delete a share.

• Allow share access.

  Note the following limitations:

  • Only IP access type is supported for NFS.
  • Only user access type is supported for CIFS.

• Deny share access.

• Manage a share.

• Unmanage a share.

• Extend a share.

• Shrink a share.

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

Description of Infortrend Manila driver configuration options

Configuration option = Default value	Description
[DEFAULT]
infortrend_nas_ip = None	(String) Infortrend nas ip. It is the ip for management.
infortrend_nas_user = manila	(String) Infortrend nas username.
infortrend_nas_password = None	(String) Password for the Infortrend NAS server. This is not necessary if infortrend_nas_ssh_key is set.
infortrend_nas_ssh_key = None	(String) SSH key for the Infortrend NAS server. This is not necessary if infortrend_nas_password is set.
infortrend_share_pools = None	(String) Infortrend nas pool name list. It is separated with comma.
infortrend_share_channels = None	(String) Infortrend channels for file service. It is separated with comma.
infortrend_cli_timeout = 30	(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