EMC Isilon driver
The EMC Shared File Systems driver framework (EMCShareDriver)
utilizes EMC
storage products to provide shared file systems to OpenStack. The EMC
driver is a plug-in based driver which is designed to use
different plug-ins to manage different EMC storage products.
The Isilon driver is a plug-in for the EMC framework which allows
the Shared File Systems service to interface with an Isilon back end to
provide a shared filesystem. The EMC driver framework with the
Isilon plug-in is referred to as the "Isilon Driver" in
this document.
This Isilon Driver interfaces with an Isilon cluster via the REST
Isilon Platform API (PAPI) and the RESTful Access to Namespace API
(RAN).
Requirements
Isilon cluster running OneFS 7.2 or higher
Supported operations
The following operations will be supported on an Isilon cluster:
Create CIFS/NFS share.
Delete CIFS/NFS share.
Allow CIFS/NFS share access.
Only IP access type is supported for NFS and CIFS.
* Only RW access is supported.
Deny CIFS/NFS share access
Create snapshot
Delete snapshot
Create share from snapshot
Backend configuration
The following parameters need to be configured in the Shared
File Systems service configuration file for the Isilon driver:
share_driver = manila.share.drivers.emc.driver.EMCShareDriver
emc_share_backend = isilon emc_nas_server = <IP address of
Isilon cluster> emc_nas_login = <username>
emc_nas_password = <password> isilon_share_root_dir =
<directory on Isilon where shares will be created>
Restart of manila-share service is needed for the configuration
changes to take effect.
Restrictions
The Isilon driver has the following restrictions:
Only IP access type is supported for NFS and CIFS.
Only FLAT network is supported.
Quotas are not yet supported.
Driver configuration options
Configuration options specific to this driver are documented here:
.