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

[Marius Cornea]

----- Original Message -----
> From: "Alessandro Vozza" <alessandro at namecheap.com>
> To: "Marius Cornea" <mcornea at redhat.com>
> Cc: "Yogev Rabl" <yrabl at redhat.com>, "rdo-list" <rdo-list at redhat.com>, tbeckers at kangaroot.net
> Sent: Tuesday, November 10, 2015 11:49:08 AM
> Subject: Re: [Rdo-list] Cinder multi-backend (NetApp)
> 
> Thank you all, we’ll make sure to test this and report back.
> 
> One question, how to pass that array to cinder/manifests/backends.pp
> manifest? Something like:
> 
> CinderEnabledBackends: ‘netapp’,’rbd’
> 
> ?

I think you should use the CinderEnableNetappBackend and CinderEnableRbdBackend parameters in cinder-netapp-config.yaml and puppet-ceph-external.yaml environment files.
 
> 
> 
> > On 10 Nov 2015, at 11:33, Marius Cornea <mcornea at redhat.com> wrote:
> > 
> > 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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