[Rdo-list] Cinder multi-backend (NetApp)

Marius Cornea mcornea at redhat.com
Tue Nov 10 10:33:33 UTC 2015


Adding the list.

----- Original Message -----
> From: "Yogev Rabl" <yrabl at redhat.com>
> To: "Marius Cornea" <mcornea at redhat.com>
> Sent: Tuesday, November 10, 2015 11:11:45 AM
> Subject: Re: [Rdo-list] Cinder multi-backend (NetApp)
> 
> Hi,
> 
> If you're testing whether the second back end is ready for use, check the
> parameter enabled_backends in /etc/cinder/cinder.conf, its values are the
> section name of each back end.
> In addition, check whether a type was created for the second back end with
> the command
> # cinder extra-specs-list
> 
> Cheers
> 
> 
> On Mon, Nov 9, 2015 at 6:53 PM, Marius Cornea <mcornea at redhat.com> wrote:
> 
> > Hi Alessandro,
> >
> > Here are the steps for configuring Netapp as Cinder backend:
> >
> > https://repos.fedorapeople.org/repos/openstack-m/rdo-manager-docs/liberty/advanced_deployment/cinder_netapp.html
> >
> > For deploying it together with Ceph I'd use the same steps for
> > /usr/share/openstack-tripleo-heat-templates/environments/puppet-ceph-external.yaml
> > and then deploy the overcloud by passing both the cinder-netapp-config.yaml
> > and puppet-ceph-external.yaml environment files:
> >
> > openstack overcloud deploy --templates -e ~/cinder-netapp-config.yaml -e
> > ~/puppet-ceph-external.yaml
> >
> > I haven't tried this scenario myself but it would be great to get some
> > feedback on it.
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Marius
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > > From: "Alessandro Vozza" <alessandro at namecheap.com>
> > > To: "rdo-list" <rdo-list at redhat.com>
> > > Sent: Monday, November 9, 2015 5:32:39 PM
> > > Subject: [Rdo-list] Cinder multi-backend (NetApp)
> > >
> > >
> > > HI list
> > >
> > > how would you go about implementing multi backends in cinder via
> > > tripleo-templates? I know that upstream puppet modules supports it, but
> > how
> > > to specify a second backend (in particular, a NetApp+Ceph deployment)?
> > Any
> > > hint appreciated.
> > >
> > > P.S.
> > >
> > > I did find
> > >
> > https://github.com/openstack/tripleo-heat-templates/blob/master/environments/cinder-netapp-config.yaml
> > > , but hot to enable dual backends?)
> > >
> > >
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