From 58c144e4258bd8221c02599637c8d5026b012643 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Sumit Shatwara Date: Wed, 23 Aug 2017 04:55:01 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] Update HPE 3PAR Storage Driver docs for Pike release Change-Id: Ia2ea869f67d705fca2487f7a99ebb5e9e899d398 --- .../block-storage/drivers/hpe-3par-driver.rst | 35 ++++++++++++++++--- 1 file changed, 31 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) diff --git a/doc/source/configuration/block-storage/drivers/hpe-3par-driver.rst b/doc/source/configuration/block-storage/drivers/hpe-3par-driver.rst index 319fa8917c6..69d9de43be9 100644 --- a/doc/source/configuration/block-storage/drivers/hpe-3par-driver.rst +++ b/doc/source/configuration/block-storage/drivers/hpe-3par-driver.rst @@ -89,12 +89,15 @@ Supported operations * Fail-back host volumes. -* Create, delete, update, snapshot, and clone consistency groups. +* Retype a replicated volume. -* Create and delete consistency group snapshots. +* Create, delete, update, snapshot, and clone generic volume groups. -* Create a consistency group from a consistency group snapshot or another - group. +* Create and delete generic volume group snapshots. + +* Create a generic volume group from a group snapshot or another group. + +* Volume Compression. Volume type support for both HPE 3PAR drivers includes the ability to set the following capabilities in the OpenStack Block Storage API @@ -111,6 +114,8 @@ module: * ``hpe3par:flash_cache`` +* ``hpe3par:compression`` + To work with the default filter scheduler, the key values are case sensitive and scoped with ``hpe3par:``. For information about how to set the key-value pairs and associate them with a volume type, run the following command: @@ -225,6 +230,28 @@ Adaptive Flash Cache license installed. * ``hpe3par:flash_cache`` - The flash-cache policy, which can be turned on and off by setting the value to ``true`` or ``false``. +For ``hpe3par:compression`` key, the HPE 3PAR StoreServ Storage array must meet +the following requirements: + +* Firmware version HPE 3PAR OS 3.3.1 + +* HPE 3PAR Storage system with 8k or 20k series + +* Compression license installed + +* Supported only on Solid State drives + +* The assigned CPG for a compressed volume must be set to device type of "SSD" + +Other restrictions and considerations for ``hpe3par:compression``: + + - For a compressed volume, minimum volume size needed is 16 GB; otherwise + resulting volume will be created successfully but will not be a compressed volume. + + - A full provisioned volume cannot be compressed, + if a compression is enabled and provisioning type requested is full, + the resulting volume defaults to thinly provisioned compressed volume. + LDAP and AD authentication is now supported in the HPE 3PAR driver. The 3PAR back end must be properly configured for LDAP and AD authentication