The cinder volume driver allows using VDisks directly as cinder volumes. The current driver only supports access of the VDisks over iSCSI. FC support will be added next

Installation

The driver files can be downloaded from <a href="/virtentdub3z/quadstor-cinder.tgz>quadstor-cinder.tgz</a> Copy the driver files to the cinder volume drivers directory. For example on RHEL 6

# tar xvzf quadstor-cinder.tgz
# cp -r quadstor /usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/cinder/volume/drivers
# ls -1 /usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/cinder/volume/drivers/quadstor
common.py
__init__.py
iscsi.py

Restart cinder volume, api and scheduler service

Driver parameters

        cfg.StrOpt('vdisk_compression',
                   default='off',
                   help='Enable/Disable VDisk compression'),
        cfg.StrOpt('vdisk_pool',
                   default=None,
                   help='Storage pool for VDisks'),
        cfg.StrOpt('vdisk_deduplication',
                   default='on',
                   help='Enable/Disable VDisk deduplication'),
        cfg.StrOpt('vdisk_volume_prefix',
                   default='',
                   help='Prefix for VDisk names to identify that it is a cinder volume/snapshot'),

vdisk_compression when set to 'on' will create a vdisk with compression enabled. By default compression is disabled. vdisk_pool specifies the storage pool to which the vdisk will belong. If no storage pool is specified, the Default pool is used vdisk_deduplication enables or disabled data deduplication when the vdisk is created. By default data deduplication is enabled vdisk_volume_prefix specifies the prefix added to the name of the vdisk when it is created The cinder volume driver extends the san ISCSI driver and requires the following additional parameters

san_login
san_password
san_ip
The backend utilties such as vdconfig, qclone only allow 'root' to run the utilities. This will be fixed in a later release

Example configuration

Following is an example of additions to cinder.conf

enabled_backends=quadstor-1, quadstor-2
scheduler_driver=cinder.scheduler.filter_scheduler.FilterScheduler

[quadstor-1]
volume_driver=cinder.volume.drivers.quadstor.iscsi.QUADStorSanISCSIDriver
volume_backend_name=QUADStorSanISCSIDriver
san_login=root
san_password=rootpass
san_ip=10.0.13.120
vdisk_compression=on
vdisk_volume_prefix=ostack

[quadstor-2]
volume_driver=cinder.volume.drivers.quadstor.iscsi.QUADStorSanISCSIDriver
volume_backend_name=quadstor_iscsi
san_login=root
san_password=rootpass
san_ip=10.0.13.120
vdisk_compression=off
vdisk_deduplication=off
vdisk_volume_prefix=cloud

In the above configuration 10.0.13.120 is the system where quadstor virtualization software is installed. san_login shall be root and san_password will be root's password. The commands are executed over ssh and the system should allow ssh logins for root. A simple way to test this is

$ ssh root@10.0.13.120 pwd
root@10.0.13.120's password: 
/root
Once a vdisk is created using a vdisk_volume_prefix, the prefix is used for creating the iqn, the vdisk name etc. The rest of the operation will depend on this such as deleting a volume, creating a snapshot, the iqn itself etc. There for this cannot be changed at a later time unless all vdisks for a volume type are deleted. Also changes at the quadstor system side such as vdisk rename, changing the iqn should not be done The following operations are currently possible
  • Volume create, delete and extend
  • Snapshot create and delete

Command line examples

# cinder --os-username admin --os-tenant-name admin type-create quadstor
# cinder --os-username admin --os-tenant-name admin type-key quadstor set volume_backend_name=QUADStorSanISCSIDriver
# cinder --os-username admin --os-tenant-name admin type-create quadstor2
# cinder --os-username admin --os-tenant-name admin type-key quadstor2 set volume_backend_name=quadstor_iscsi

# cinder extra-specs-list
+--------------------------------------+-----------+-----------------------------------------------------+
|                  ID                  |    Name   |                     extra_specs                     |
+--------------------------------------+-----------+-----------------------------------------------------+
| 157f1ae7-69ed-45ba-bb4f-313ee81a0282 | quadstor2 |     {u'volume_backend_name': u'quadstor_iscsi'}     |
| a8aa6061-bd15-4737-8439-ae023e6d54ac |  quadstor | {u'volume_backend_name': u'QUADStorSanISCSIDriver'} |


# cinder create --volume_type quadstor --display_name vdisk3 20
# cinder create --volume_type quadstor2 --display_name vdisk4 20

# cinder list
+--------------------------------------+-----------+--------------+------+-------------+----------+-------------+
|                  ID                  |   Status  | Display Name | Size | Volume Type | Bootable | Attached to |
+--------------------------------------+-----------+--------------+------+-------------+----------+-------------+
| 2f7efd4f-2b81-48d8-b347-8f0df7cc2b22 | available |    vdisk4    |  20  |   quadstor  |  false   |             |
| 57c12d49-3167-4219-907e-3bdc7c819c5c | available |    vdisk3    |  20  |  quadstor2  |  false   |             |
+--------------------------------------+-----------+--------------+------+-------------+----------+-------------+