Infortrend Manila driver¶

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

Requirements¶

To use the Infortrend Manila driver, the following items 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.

Restrictions¶

The Infortrend manila driver has the following restrictions:

Only IP access type is supported for NFS.
Only user access type is supported for CIFS.
Only file-level data service channel can offer the NAS service.

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¶

All configuration options for this driver are documented in the Configuration Reference.

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

Infortrend Manila driver