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Mellanox-Cinder

Revision as of 12:17, 20 March 2013 by Ophir Maor (talk | contribs) (References)

Overview

iSER (iSCSI over RDMA) Mellanox OpenStack support to Cinder

Installation

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.

References

1. OpenStack solution page at Mellanox site

2. Source repository

3. Mellanox OFED web page

For more details, please refer any inquiries to openstack@mellanox.com.


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