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OpenStack & Nimble Storage – Cinder multi backend

This post describes how to setup a Nimble Storage array within a cinder multi backend configuration, running OpenStack Icehouse.
If you are new to OpenStack or cinder, you might be asking why should you run single-backend vs multi-backend.

Basically, single-backend means you are using a single storage array/single group of arrays as your backend storage. In a multi backend configuration, you might have storage arrays from multiple vendors or you might just have different Nimble Storage arrays which provide several levels of performance. For example, you might want to use your CS700 as high-performance storage and your CS220 as a less performance intensive storage.

  1. Upload your Cinder driver to /usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/cinder/volume/drivers
  2. Add theNimbleCinderparameters to /etc/cinder/cinder.conf as a new section 
    #Nimble Cinder Configuration 
[nimble-cinder]
san_ip=management-ip
san_login=admin_user
san_password=password
volume_driver=cinder.volume.drivers.nimble.NimbleISCSIDriver
  3. Add [nimble-cinder] to enabled-backend.Ifenabled-backends does not yet exist in your cinder.conf file, please add the following line: 
    enabled_backends=nimble-cinder,any_additional_backends
  4. Create a new volume type for the nimble-cinder backend: 
    root@TS-Training-OS-01 nova(keystone_admin)]# cinder type-create nimble1
  5. Next, link the backend name to the volume type: 
    root@TS-Training-OS-01 nova(keystone_admin)]# cinder type-key nimble1 set volume_backend_name=nimble-cinder
  6. Restartcinder-api, cinder-scheduler and cinder-volume 
    root@TS-Training-OS-01 (keystone_admin)]# service openstack-cinder-scheduler restart
      Stopping openstack-cinder-scheduler:                       [  OK  ]
      Starting openstack-cinder-scheduler:                       [  OK  ]
      [root@TS-Training-OS-01 (keystone_admin)]# service openstack-cinder-api restart
      Stopping openstack-cinder-api:                             [  OK  ]
      Starting openstack-cinder-api:                             [  OK  ]
      [root@TS-Training-OS-01 (keystone_admin)]# service openstack-cinder-volume restart
      Stopping openstack-cinder-volume:                          [  OK  ]
      Starting openstack-cinder-volume:                          [  OK  ]
  7. Create a volume either via Horizon or the CLI 
    root@TS-Training-OS-01 nova(keystone_admin)]# cinder create --volume_type nimble1 --display-name test_volume 50
          +---------------------+--------------------------------------+
      |       Property      |                Value                 |
      +---------------------+--------------------------------------+
      |     attachments     |                  []                  |
      |  availability_zone  |                 nova                 |
      |       bootable      |                false                 |
      |      created_at     |      2014-11-05T18:23:54.011013      |
      | display_description |                 None                 |     
      |     display_name    |             test_volume              |
      |      encrypted      |                False                 |
      |          id         | 6cce44ad-a71f-4973-b862-aefe9c5f0a79 |
      |       metadata      |                  {}                  |
      |         size        |                  50                  |
      |     snapshot_id     |                 None                 |
      |     source_volid    |                 None                 |
      |         status      |                creating              |
      |     volume_type     |                nimble1               |
      +---------------------+--------------------------------------+
  8. Verify the volume has successfully been created 
     [root@TS-Training-OS-01 nova(keystone_admin)]# cinder list
 Screen Shot 2014-11-11 at 5.03.29 PM
  9. Verify the creation of the volume on your storage array. Go to Manage -> Volumes
    openstack_array

 

Nimble Storage Cinder Integration

In this post, I will only cover the Nimble Storage Cinder Integration for OpenStack Icehouse.

Some of you have already an OpenStack cloud in their environment and also own a Nimble Storage array, others might not have an OpenStack cloud yet but consider it. Nimble Storage just announced officially their OpenStack integration. Starting with Juno, the Nimble Cinder driver will be shipped with the OpenStack release. The actual approval and blue print can be found here. For Icehouse, you’ll need to download the driver from InfoSight or request it from support.

Follow these 6 steps to upload the Nimble Cinder driver, configure and test it:

Note: The steps below cover a single-backend configuration. A multi-backend configuration will be covered in a separate post.

  1. Upload your Cinder driver to /usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/cinder/volume/drivers
  2. Add theNimbleCinderparameters to /etc/cinder/cinder.conf within the [DEFAULT] section 
    #Nimble Cinder Configuration 
san_ip=management-ip
san_login=admin_user
san_password=password
volume_driver=cinder.volume.drivers.nimble.NimbleISCSIDriver
  3. Restartcinder-api, cinder-scheduler and cinder-volume 
    root@TS-Training-OS-01 (keystone_admin)]# service openstack-cinder-scheduler restart
      Stopping openstack-cinder-scheduler:                       [  OK  ]
      Starting openstack-cinder-scheduler:                       [  OK  ]
      [root@TS-Training-OS-01 (keystone_admin)]# service openstack-cinder-api restart
      Stopping openstack-cinder-api:                             [  OK  ]
      Starting openstack-cinder-api:                             [  OK  ]
      [root@TS-Training-OS-01 (keystone_admin)]# service openstack-cinder-volume restart
      Stopping openstack-cinder-volume:                          [  OK  ]
      Starting openstack-cinder-volume:                          [  OK  ]
  4. Create a volume either via Horizon or the CLI 
    root@TS-Training-OS-01 nova(keystone_admin)]# cinder create --display-name test_volume 50
          +---------------------+--------------------------------------+
      |       Property      |                Value                 |
      +---------------------+--------------------------------------+
      |     attachments     |                  []                  |
      |  availability_zone  |                 nova                 |
      |       bootable      |                false                 |
      |      created_at     |      2014-11-05T18:23:54.011013      |
      | display_description |                 None                 |     
      |     display_name    |             test_volume              |
      |      encrypted      |                False                 |
      |          id         | 6cce44ad-a71f-4973-b862-aefe9c5f0a79 |
      |       metadata      |                  {}                  |
      |         size        |                  50                  |
      |     snapshot_id     |                 None                 |
      |     source_volid    |                 None                 |
      |         status      |                creating              |
      |     volume_type     |                 None                 |
      +---------------------+--------------------------------------+
  5. Verify the volume has successfully been created 
     [root@TS-Training-OS-01 nova(keystone_admin)]# cinder list
 cinder-list
  6. Verify the creation of the volume on your storage array. Go to Manage -> Volumes
    openstack_array