Kuirong.Chen 8c7c9e4012 [Infortrend] Add Infortrend Manila Doc

This patch updates the Manila administrator reference adding
documentation to the recently introduced Infortrend driver.

Closes-Bug: #1839486

Change-Id: I3332f90bc84fbc8918277d23ab7c51ede16376f2

2019-08-26 10:49:03 +08:00

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Infortrend Manila driver

The Infortrend Manila driver provides NFS and CIFS shared file systems to OpenStack.

Requirements

To use the Infortrend Manila driver, the following items are required:

GS/GSe Family firmware version v73.1.0-4 and later.
Configure at least one channel for shared file systems.

Supported shared filesystems and operations

This driver supports NFS and CIFS shares.

The following operations are supported:

Create a share.
Delete a share.
Allow share access.

Note the following limitations:
- Only IP access type is supported for NFS.
- Only user access type is supported for CIFS.
Deny share access.
Manage a share.
Unmanage a share.
Extend a share.
Shrink a share.

Restrictions

The Infortrend manila driver has the following restrictions:

Only IP access type is supported for NFS.
Only user access type is supported for CIFS.
Only file-level data service channel can offer the NAS service.

Driver configuration

On manila-share nodes, set the following in your /etc/manila/manila.conf, and use the following options to configure it:

Driver options

Back-end configuration example

[DEFAULT]
enabled_share_backends = ift-manila
enabled_share_protocols = NFS, CIFS

[ift-manila]
share_backend_name = ift-manila
share_driver = manila.share.drivers.infortrend.driver.InfortrendNASDriver
driver_handles_share_servers = False
infortrend_nas_ip = FAKE_IP
infortrend_nas_user = FAKE_USER
infortrend_nas_password = FAKE_PASS
infortrend_share_pools = pool-1, pool-2
infortrend_share_channels = 0, 1

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