To use the Violin driver, the following are required:
Violin 6000 series AFA with:
Concerto OS version 6.3.1 or later
iSCSI or FC host interfaces
Storage network connectivity between all target and initiator ports
The Violin volume driver: The driver implements the Block Storage API calls. Both FC and iSCSI driver support is included with the OpenStack Liberty release.
The vmemclient library: This is the Violin Array Communications library to the Flash Storage Platform through a REST-like interface. The client can be installed using the python 'pip' installer tool. Further information on vmemclient can be found here: PyPI .
pip install vmemclient