IscsiChapSupport

• Launchpad Entry: CinderSpec:iscsi-chap
• Created: 13 Aug 2012
• Contributors: Vincent Hou

Summary

A server template consists of a base image plus the definitions of configuration metadata. For example, a server template might include an Apache HTTP server; the metadata would include the server name, location of the HTML root directory, and tuning parameters. Glance stores the template in its registry; Nova, when creating a new server from the template, would validate the required metadata and configure the internal applications directly.

The metadata could also be used to drive automatically-generated web interfaces to solicit the configuration metadata.

Server templates could greatly increase the flexibility and usability of compute clouds; rather than creating a "bare" server and configuring it manually, this could allow users to prepopulate applications in a server image and configure them automatically.

Release Note

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It is mandatory.

User stories

User sets iSCSI san Flags in nova.conf, and starts/restarts nova-volume service.

Example nova.conf entries:

• --volume_manager=nova.volume.manager.VolumeManager --volume_driver=nova.volume.san.SolidFireSanISCSIDriver --iscsi_ip_prefix=192.168.69.211 --san_ip=192.168.69.210 --san_login=cluster_login --san_password=password --poolname=nova

The SolidFire appliance should now be available for use by OpenStack for additional block storage.

volume-create:

• SolidFire driver first builds a SolidFire user account based on a concatenation of the compute nodes hostname and the nov-volume objects project_id. For example if the compute nodes hostname is: 'mycomputenode' and the project_id is '1', then

the SolidFire account will be 'mycomputenode-1'.
This account is critical for using the SolidFire device, it determines ownership of the volumes on the system and is also used to store/configure all of the CHAP information.
The next step is to querie the SolidFire system and see if the account exists, if it does we extract the information we pull the information we need from the system (CHAP and accountID info) and use it in volume creation. If the account does now exist, then we create it using a randomly generated 12 character string for CHAP passwords. Using the accountID the requested volume is created

volume-attach:

• Volume is attached using the current iSCSI/nova api methods. Model updates are done during creation as well as export to avoid re-scans.

volume-delete:

• The SolidFire driver verifies the volume_name from the database as well as the account and issues the SolidFire API call to delete the volume.

On volume_create()

• A user account name is built based on a concatenation of the compute nodes hostname and the project-id ie on compute node with hostname 'myhost' and a project_if of '1' the result would be:
  • 'myhost-1'

This has been tested with the current Diablo release using the nova api, as well as with the current Trunk release of Essex (devstack install

Implementation

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UI Changes

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Code Changes

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Migration

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• data migration, if any
• redirects from old URLs to new ones, if any
• how users will be pointed to the new way of doing things, if necessary.

Test/Demo Plan

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Unresolved issues

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BoF agenda and discussion

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