openstack-manuals/doc/config-reference/block-storage/drivers/hp-lefthand-driver.xml
Diane Fleming b417259465 Update headings plus edits for consistency and clarity in Config Reference
Partial-Bug: #1250515

author: diane fleming

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<section xml:id="HPSan-driver" xmlns="http://docbook.org/ns/docbook"
xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude"
xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" version="5.0">
<title>HP / LeftHand SAN</title>
<para>HP/LeftHand SANs are optimized for virtualized environments
with VMware ESX &amp; Microsoft Hyper-V, though the OpenStack
integration provides additional support to various other
virtualized environments, such as Xen, KVM, and OpenVZ, by
exposing the volumes through ISCSI to connect to the
instances.</para>
<para>The HpSanISCSIDriver enables you to use a HP/Lefthand SAN
that supports the Cliq interface. Every supported volume
operation translates into a cliq call in the back-end.</para>
<para>To use Cinder with HP/Lefthand SAN, you must set the
following parameters in the <filename>cinder.conf</filename>
file:</para>
<itemizedlist>
<listitem>
<para>Set
<parameter>volume_driver=cinder.volume.drivers.san.HpSanISCSIDriver</parameter>.</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Set <parameter>san_ip</parameter> flag to the
hostname or VIP of your Virtual Storage Appliance
(VSA).</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Set <parameter>san_login</parameter> and
<parameter>san_password</parameter> to the user
name and password of the ssh user with all necessary
privileges on the appliance.</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Set <code>san_ssh_port=16022</code>. The default is
22. However, the default for the VSA is usually
16022.</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Set <code>san_clustername</code> to the name of the
cluster where the associated volumes are
created.</para>
</listitem>
</itemizedlist>
<para>The following optional parameters have the following default
values:</para>
<itemizedlist>
<listitem>
<para><code>san_thin_provision=True</code>. To disable
thin provisioning, set to <literal>False</literal>.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para><code>san_is_local=False</code>. Typically, this
parameter is set to <literal>False</literal> for this
driver. To configure the cliq commands to run locally
instead of over ssh, set this parameter to
<literal>True</literal>.</para>
</listitem>
</itemizedlist>
<para>In addition to configuring the <systemitem class="service"
>cinder-volume</systemitem> service, you must configure
the VSA to function in an OpenStack environment.</para>
<procedure>
<title>To configure the VSA</title>
<step>
<para>Configure Chap on each of the <systemitem
class="service">nova-compute</systemitem>
nodes.</para>
</step>
<step>
<para>Add Server associations on the VSA with the
associated Chap and initiator information. The name
should correspond to the <emphasis role="italic"
>'hostname'</emphasis> of the <systemitem
class="service">nova-compute</systemitem> node.
For Xen, this is the hypervisor host name. To do this,
use either Cliq or the Centralized Management
Console.</para>
</step>
</procedure>
</section>