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Lenovo Fibre Channel and iSCSI drivers

The LenovoFCDriver and LenovoISCSIDriver Cinder drivers allow Lenovo S-Series arrays to be used for block storage in OpenStack deployments.

System requirements

To use the Lenovo drivers, the following are required:

Lenovo S2200, S3200, DS2200, DS4200 or DS6200 array with:
- iSCSI or FC host interfaces
- G22x firmware or later
Network connectivity between the OpenStack host and the array management interfaces
HTTPS or HTTP must be enabled on the array

Supported operations

Create, delete, attach, and detach volumes.
Create, list, and delete volume snapshots.
Create a volume from a snapshot.
Copy an image to a volume.
Copy a volume to an image.
Clone a volume.
Extend a volume.
Migrate a volume with back-end assistance.
Retype a volume.
Manage and unmanage a volume.

Note

The generic grouping functionality supported in the G265 and later firmware is not supported by OpenStack Cinder due to differences in the grouping models used in Cinder and the S-Series firmware.

Configuring the array

Verify that the array can be managed using an HTTPS connection. HTTP can also be used if lenovo_api_protocol=http is placed into the appropriate sections of the cinder.conf file.

Confirm that virtual pools A and B are present if you plan to use virtual pools for OpenStack storage.
Edit the cinder.conf file to define a storage back-end entry for each storage pool on the array that will be managed by OpenStack. Each entry consists of a unique section name, surrounded by square brackets, followed by options specified in key=value format.
- The lenovo_backend_name value specifies the name of the storage pool on the array.
- The volume_backend_name option value can be a unique value, if you wish to be able to assign volumes to a specific storage pool on the array, or a name that's shared among multiple storage pools to let the volume scheduler choose where new volumes are allocated.
- The rest of the options will be repeated for each storage pool in a given array: volume_driver specifies the Cinder driver name; san_ip specifies the IP addresses or host names of the array's management controllers; san_login and san_password specify the username and password of an array user account with manage privileges; and lenovo_iscsi_ips specfies the iSCSI IP addresses for the array if using the iSCSI transport protocol.
In the examples below, two back ends are defined, one for pool A and one for pool B, and a common volume_backend_name is used so that a single volume type definition can be used to allocate volumes from both pools.

Example: iSCSI example back-end entries
```
[pool-a]
lenovo_backend_name = A
volume_backend_name = lenovo-array
volume_driver = cinder.volume.drivers.lenovo.lenovo_iscsi.LenovoISCSIDriver
san_ip = 10.1.2.3
san_login = manage
san_password = !manage
lenovo_iscsi_ips = 10.2.3.4,10.2.3.5

[pool-b]
lenovo_backend_name = B
volume_backend_name = lenovo-array
volume_driver = cinder.volume.drivers.lenovo.lenovo_iscsi.LenovoISCSIDriver
san_ip = 10.1.2.3
san_login = manage
san_password = !manage
lenovo_iscsi_ips = 10.2.3.4,10.2.3.5
```
Example: Fibre Channel example back-end entries
```
[pool-a]
lenovo_backend_name = A
volume_backend_name = lenovo-array
volume_driver = cinder.volume.drivers.lenovo.lenovo_fc.LenovoFCDriver
san_ip = 10.1.2.3
san_login = manage
san_password = !manage

[pool-b]
lenovo_backend_name = B
volume_backend_name = lenovo-array
volume_driver = cinder.volume.drivers.lenovo.lenovo_fc.LenovoFCDriver
san_ip = 10.1.2.3
san_login = manage
san_password = !manage
```
If HTTPS is not enabled in the array, include lenovo_api_protocol = http in each of the back-end definitions.
If HTTPS is enabled, you can enable certificate verification with the option lenovo_verify_certificate=True. You may also use the lenovo_verify_certificate_path parameter to specify the path to a CA_BUNDLE file containing CAs other than those in the default list.
Modify the [DEFAULT] section of the cinder.conf file to add an enabled_backends parameter specifying the back-end entries you added, and a default_volume_type parameter specifying the name of a volume type that you will create in the next step.

Example: [DEFAULT] section changes
```
[DEFAULT]
# ...
enabled_backends = pool-a,pool-b
default_volume_type = lenovo
```
Create a new volume type for each distinct volume_backend_name value that you added to the cinder.conf file. The example below assumes that the same volume_backend_name=lenovo-array option was specified in all of the entries, and specifies that the volume type lenovo can be used to allocate volumes from any of them.

Example: Creating a volume type
```
$ openstack volume type create lenovo
$ openstack volume type set --property volume_backend_name=lenovo-array lenovo
```
After modifying the cinder.conf file, restart the cinder-volume service.

Driver-specific options

The following table contains the configuration options that are specific to the Lenovo drivers.

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