The GPFS driver uses IBM General Parallel File System (GPFS), a high-performance, clustered file system, developed by IBM, as the storage back end for serving file shares to the Shared File Systems service clients.
The following table contains the configuration options specific to the share driver.
Configuration option = Default value | Description |
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[DEFAULT] | |
gpfs_mount_point_base = $state_path/mnt | (String) Base folder where exported shares are located. |
gpfs_nfs_server_list = None | (List) A list of the fully qualified NFS server names that make up the OpenStack Manila configuration. |
gpfs_nfs_server_type = KNFS | (String) NFS Server type. Valid choices are “KNFS” (kernel NFS) or “GNFS” (Ganesha NFS). |
gpfs_share_export_ip = None | (String) IP to be added to GPFS export string. |
gpfs_share_helpers = KNFS=manila.share.drivers.ibm.gpfs.KNFSHelper, GNFS=manila.share.drivers.ibm.gpfs.GNFSHelper | (List) Specify list of share export helpers. |
gpfs_ssh_login = None | (String) GPFS server SSH login name. |
gpfs_ssh_password = None | (String) GPFS server SSH login password. The password is not needed, if ‘gpfs_ssh_private_key’ is configured. |
gpfs_ssh_port = 22 | (Port number) GPFS server SSH port. |
gpfs_ssh_private_key = None | (String) Path to GPFS server SSH private key for login. |
knfs_export_options = rw,sync,no_root_squash,insecure,no_wdelay,no_subtree_check | (String) Options to use when exporting a share using kernel NFS server. Note that these defaults can be overridden when a share is created by passing metadata with key name export_options. |
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