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Revision as of 10:28, 22 January 2014
Contents
Overview
iSER (iSCSI over RDMA) Mellanox OpenStack support to Cinder.
This can allow 5x faster bandwidth compared to using iSCSI TCP.
For example, over RAM device LUN I got ~1.3GBps Vs. ~5.5GBps (TCP Vs. iSER), and much lower CPU overhead.
Havana Release
Installation
The Mellanox Cinder pacakge is embeded within the OpenStack Cinder, no patches or plugins are needed. Just follow the formal OpenStack Cinder installation
Configuration
In order to enable iSER, need to adjust these values at /etc/cinder/cinder.conf:
iser_ip_address = <ipoib/roce_address> volume_driver = cinder.volume.drivers.lvm.LVMISERDriver
iser_ip_address is required to do a "discovery" over the IB/RoCE interface from the initiator side.
volume_driver points cinder to use the ISERDriver, instead the LVMISCSIDriver.
On nova-compute side change the following in /etc/nova/nova.conf:
libvirt_volume_drivers = iser=nova.virt.libvirt.volume.LibvirtISERVolumeDriver
Restart Cinder and Nova compute services
#/etc/init.d/openstack-cinder-volume restart #/etc/init.d/openstack-nova-compute restart
Grizzly Release
Installation
Getting the code
wget https://github.com/mellanox-openstack/cinder-iser/archive/stable/grizzly.zip cd cinder-iser-stable-grizzly
Applying the patches
You have two choices:
- To apply this support, replace the files under "cinder/cinder/" And "nova/nova/" Respectively.
- Apply the patches under "cinder/" And "nova/", don't forget to copy "cinder/cinder/volume/iser.py" if you choose this way.
Configuration
In order to enable iSER, need to adjust these values at /etc/cinder/cinder.conf:
iser_ip_address = <ipoib/roce_address> volume_driver = cinder.volume.drivers.lvm.LVMISERDriver
iser_ip_address is required to do a "discovery" over the IB/RoCE interface from the initiator side.
volume_driver points cinder to use the ISERDriver, instead the LVMISCSIDriver.
On nova-compute side change the following in /etc/nova/nova.conf:
libvirt_volume_drivers = iser=nova.virt.libvirt.volume.LibvirtISERVolumeDriver
Restart Cinder and Nova compute services
#/etc/init.d/openstack-cinder-volume restart #/etc/init.d/openstack-nova-compute restart
Known Issues
(1) “scsi-target-utils” package
Note: for RH6.4 or below: “scsi-target-utils” package needs to be 1.0.38 and up, if you use RDO installation you should check the version. The RPM can be found in http://www.mellanox.com/downloads/solutions/rpms/
#wget http://www.mellanox.com/downloads/solutions/rpms/scsi-target-utils-1.0.39-v1.0.39.c1135a.x86_64.rpm #rpm -Uvh scsi-target-utils-1.0.39-v1.0.39.c1135a.x86_64.rpm
In addition, RH6.5 has “scsi-target-utils” package with version 1.0.24-10, which is good enough, no further action is needed for RHEL6.5
(2) Flow control
Make sure that flow control is enabled on the switches on the relevant ports across the network.
References
1. OpenStack solution page at Mellanox site
5. Cinder-node
Return to Mellanox-OpenStack wiki page.
For more details, please refer any inquiries to openstack@mellanox.com.
