manila/install-guide/source/common/share-node-share-server-modes.rst

The share node can support two modes, with and without the handling of share servers. The mode depends on driver support.

Option 1

Deploying the service without driver support for share server management. In this mode, the service does not do anything related to networking. The operator must ensure network connectivity between instances and the NAS protocol based server.

This tutorial demonstrates setting up the LVM driver which creates LVM volumes on the share node and exports them with the help of an NFS server that is installed locally on the share node. It therefore requires LVM and NFS packages as well as an additional disk for the manila-share LVM volume group.

This driver mode may be referred to as driver_handles_share_servers = False mode, or simply DHSS=False mode.

Option 2

Deploying the service with driver support for share server management. In this mode, the service runs with a back end driver that creates and manages share servers. This tutorial demonstrates setting up the Generic driver. This driver requires Compute service (nova), Image service (glance) and Networking service (neutron) for creating and managing share servers; and Block storage service (cinder) for creating shares.

The information used for creating share servers is configured with the help of share networks.

This driver mode may be referred to as driver_handles_share_servers = True mode, or simply DHSS=True mode.

Warning

When running the generic driver in DHSS=True driver mode, the share service should be run on the same node as the networking service. However, such a service may not be able to run the LVM driver that runs in DHSS=False driver mode effectively, due to a bug in some distributions of Linux. For more information, see LVM Driver section in the Configuration Reference Guide.