[Rdo-list] Manila configuration Kilo

[Charles Short]

Hi,

Just an update. As nobody  here seems to know the answer to this I have 
asked NetApp the same question as they clearly are an early adopter of 
Manila and will understand how it works.

I will post back with any answers I get.





On 07/07/2015 16:41, Charles Short wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have managed to get our storage team here to give me access to a 
> NetApp.
>
> So I started reading this in detail -
>
> http://netapp.github.io/openstack-deploy-ops-guide/kilo/content/section_manila-key-concepts.html 
>
>
> and it became quickly apparent that there appears to be no mention of 
> a particular functionality we may need....
>
> To elaborate -
>
> We have existing NFS exports containing files that we would like to 
> make available to instances directly with Manila.
>
> All the documentation I have read both from NetApp and Openstack 
> concentrates on creating new Manila shares, in NetApp speak this means 
> the NetApp Manila backend acting on an API call to create a new 
> FlexVol (Manila share) on the NetApp NFS filer.
>
> So how do you import existing FlexVols (NFS exports) into Manila?
>
> I looks briefly at the code and only came up with this Class that 
> looked promising (but equally may be a red herring)-
> >>
> grep -ir -B 1 -A5  "existing" 
> /usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/manila/api/contrib/share_manage.py
>
> class Share_manage(extensions.ExtensionDescriptor):
>     """Allows existing share to be 'managed' by Manila."""
>
>     name = 'ShareManage'
>     alias = 'os-share-manage'
>     updated = '2015-02-17T00:00:00+00:00'
> >>
>
> Am I missing something here (which is entirely possible) or does the 
> API not yet expose this functionality?
>
> Thanks
>
>
>
>
>
> On 06/07/2015 15:13, Charles Short wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> Thank you for the quick reply.
>>
>> That sounds useful for testing general Manila functionality.
>>
>> In an ideal world I would like the backend I use to support a 
>> multi-tenacy segmented network, this one does not -
>>
>> "The driver does not support network segmented multi-tenancy model, 
>> but instead works over a flat network, where the tenants share a 
>> network"
>>
>> I am using vxlan in the tenant network, and so would like to create a 
>> Manila share network with a vxlan segmentation id.
>>
>> Is there another backend that would support this, or am I bound to 
>> NetApp for this sort of support?
>>
>> Thanks
>>
>>
>> On 06/07/2015 14:57, Haïkel wrote:
>>> 2015-07-06 15:41 GMT+02:00 Charles Short <cems at ebi.ac.uk>:
>>>> Hi,
>>>>
>>>> I have installed the latest RDO Kilo release with two compute nodes 
>>>> and one
>>>> controller.  This all works.
>>>>
>>>> I have an external NFS Linux server that currently provides NFS for 
>>>> Cinder.
>>>>
>>>> I want to provide another NFS export from the same server directly 
>>>> to an
>>>> instance with Manila. I can't seem to find any guidance on how to 
>>>> configure
>>>> a backend in the manila.conf file for this purpose. I need to know 
>>>> how I
>>>> configure the export server ip, path etc. The only example I can 
>>>> find online
>>>> is how to configure a backend for NetApp.
>>>>
>>>> http://netapp.github.io/openstack-deploy-ops-guide/kilo/content/manila.examples.manila_conf.single_svm.html 
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> I need a backend for a generic Linux NFS server
>>>>
>>> You may use the glusterfs backend
>>> http://docs.openstack.org/developer/manila/devref/glusterfs_driver.html
>>>
>>> Packstack doesn't configure it yet (though puppet-manila has already
>>> glusterfs support)
>>>
>>> H.
>>>
>>>> Thanks
>>>>
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