Mellanox-Cinder

Overview

iSER (iSCSI over RDMA) Mellanox OpenStack support to Cinder

Instalation

In order to add iSER support to Cinder perform the following operations:

1. Update the two flags in "/etc/cinder/cinder.conf"

   transport = iser (by default will be iscsi)
   iser_ip_address = 192.168.20.140 (by default will be "iscsi_ip_address")

2. Replace the files under "cinder/volume":

• driver.py
• iscsi.py

3. Replace the file under "nova/virt/libvirt":

• volume.py

For additional details refer to "*.patch" files.

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