diff --git a/doc/source/configuration/block-storage/drivers/nimble-volume-driver.rst b/doc/source/configuration/block-storage/drivers/nimble-volume-driver.rst index 1f363d4fe84..c8929ba400f 100644 --- a/doc/source/configuration/block-storage/drivers/nimble-volume-driver.rst +++ b/doc/source/configuration/block-storage/drivers/nimble-volume-driver.rst @@ -1,10 +1,10 @@ -============================ -Nimble Storage volume driver -============================ +========================================= +Nimble & Alletra 6k Storage volume driver +========================================= Nimble Storage fully integrates with the OpenStack platform through the Nimble Cinder driver, allowing a host to configure and manage Nimble -Storage array features through Block Storage interfaces. +and Alletra 6k Storage array features through Block Storage interfaces. Support for iSCSI storage protocol is available with NimbleISCSIDriver Volume Driver class and Fibre Channel with NimbleFCDriver. @@ -15,9 +15,12 @@ Support for the Liberty release and above is available from Nimble OS Support for the Ocata release and above is available from Nimble OS 3.6 or later. -Nimble Storage Cinder driver does not support port binding with multiple -interfaces on the same subnet due to existing limitation in os-brick. This -is partially referenced in the bug +For Xena release, Nimble OS 5.3 or later is used and Alletra OS 6.0 +or later is used. + +Nimble and Alletra 6k Storage Cinder driver does not support port binding +with multiple interfaces on the same subnet due to existing limitation in +os-brick. This is partially referenced in the bug https://bugs.launchpad.net/os-brick/+bug/1722432 but does not resolve for multiple software iscsi ifaces. @@ -42,10 +45,11 @@ Supported operations * Create, list, update, and delete consistency groups * Create, list, and delete consistency group snapshots -Nimble Storage driver configuration -~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ +Nimble and Alletra 6k Storage driver configuration +~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Update the file ``/etc/cinder/cinder.conf`` with the given configuration. +Note: These parameters apply to Alletra 6k Storage as well. In case of a basic (single back-end) configuration, add the parameters within the ``[default]`` section as follows. @@ -92,14 +96,14 @@ is created and associated with a back-end name as follows. This section explains the variables used above: NIMBLE_MGMT_IP - Management IP address of Nimble Storage array/group. + Management IP address of Nimble/Alletra 6k Storage array/group. NIMBLE_USER - Nimble Storage account login with minimum ``power user`` (admin) privilege - if RBAC is used. + Nimble/Alletra 6k Storage account login with minimum ``power user`` + (admin) privilege if RBAC is used. NIMBLE_PASSWORD - Password of the admin account for nimble array. + Password of the admin account for Nimble/Alletra 6k array. NIMBLE_VOLUME_DRIVER Use either cinder.volume.drivers.nimble.NimbleISCSIDriver for iSCSI or @@ -128,7 +132,8 @@ The Nimble volume driver also supports the following extra spec options: 'nimble:perfpol-name'=PERF_POL_NAME PERF_POL_NAME is the name of a performance policy which exists on the - Nimble array and should be enabled for every volume in a volume type. + Nimble/Alletra 6k array and should be enabled for every volume in a + volume type. .. note:: @@ -143,8 +148,8 @@ nimble:dedupe'='true' volumes created for this volume-type. 'nimble:folder'=FOLDER_NAME - FOLDER_NAME is the name of the folder which exists on the Nimble array - and should be enabled for every volume in a volume type + FOLDER_NAME is the name of the folder which exists on the Nimble/Alletra 6k + array and should be enabled for every volume in a volume type These extra-specs can be enabled by using the following command: @@ -158,7 +163,7 @@ the options mentioned above. Configuration options ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ -The Nimble storage driver supports these configuration options: +The Nimble/Alletra 6k storage driver supports these configuration options: .. config-table:: :config-target: Nimble diff --git a/releasenotes/notes/nimble-add-alletra-6k-info-8d242a809e6044a5.yaml b/releasenotes/notes/nimble-add-alletra-6k-info-8d242a809e6044a5.yaml new file mode 100644 index 00000000000..3f7990b93c8 --- /dev/null +++ b/releasenotes/notes/nimble-add-alletra-6k-info-8d242a809e6044a5.yaml @@ -0,0 +1,5 @@ +other: + - | + Nimble: Documented that existing driver supports the new Alletra 6k + backend. Alletra 6k is newer version of existing Nimble backend. +