SolidFire plugin for Fuel extends Mirantis OpenStack functionality by adding support for SolidFire all Flash block storage cluster.
The SolidFire cluster is an iSCSI block storage device used as a Cinder backend.
| Requirement | Version/Comment |
|---|---|
| Mirantis OpenStack compatibility | >= 6.1 |
| Access to SolidFire MVIP via cinder-volume node | |
| Access to SolidFire SVIP via compute/cinder-volume nodes | |
| iSCSI initiator on all compute/cinder-volume nodes |
Currently Fuel doesn't support multi-backend.
Before starting a deployment there are some things that you should verify:
- Your SolidFire Cluster can route 10G Storage Network to all Compute nodes as well as the Cinder Control/Manager node.
- Create an account on the SolidFire cluster to use as the OpenStack Administrator account (use the login/password for this account as san_login/password settings).
- Obtain the MVIP address from the SolidFire cluster (uses as the san_ip)
All of the needed code for using SolidFire in an OpenStack deployment is included in the upstream OpenStack distribution. There are no additional libraries, software packages or licenses.