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Re: Openstack - cinder - volume driver NFS

 

Hello,

Thank you for your configuration, it will help me a lot.

One last question : what is the data in the file of
"nfs_shares_config" : /var/lib/cinder/nfsshare  plz ?

Thx in advance

2013/1/14 Ray Sun <qsun01185@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
> Here's my configuration for cinder using NFS, also I submit bug for creating
> volume snapshot and volume from snapshot here, I already fixed it in my
> local, not submit yet:
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/cinder/+bug/1097266
>
> /etc/cinder/cinder.conf
> [DEFAULT]
> rootwrap_config=/etc/cinder/rootwrap.conf
> sql_connection =
> mysql://cinder:cinder-administrator@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx/cinder
> api_paste_confg = /etc/cinder/api-paste.ini
> iscsi_helper=ietadm
> volume_name_template = volume-%s
> volume_group = vg_cinder
> #volume_group = cinder-volumes
> verbose = True
> auth_strategy = keystone
> #osapi_volume_listen_port=5900
> volumes_dir=/var/lib/cinder/volumes/
> rabbit_host=controller.cienet.com.cn
> volume_driver=cinder.volume.nfs.NfsDriver
> ######## defined in cinder.volume.drivers.nfs ########
> nfs_shares_config=/var/lib/cinder/nfsshare
> nfs_mount_point_base=/var/lib/cinder/volumes
> nfs_disk_util=df
> nfs_sparsed_volumes=true
>
> /etc/cinder/rootwrap.d/volume.filters add
> # cinder/volume/nfs.py
> stat: CommandFilter, /usr/bin/stat, root
> mount: CommandFilter, /bin/mount, root
> df: CommandFilter, /bin/df, root
> truncate: CommandFilter, /usr/bin/truncate, root
> chmod: CommandFilter, /bin/chmod, root
> rm: CommandFilter, /bin/rm, root
>
> /etc/nova/nova.conf add
> # for cinder use volume as nfs
> libvirt_volume_drivers="iscsi=nova.virt.libvirt.volume.LibvirtISCSIVolumeDriver,local=nova.virt.libvirt.volume.LibvirtVolumeDriver,fake=nova.virt.libvirt.volume.LibvirtFakeVolumeDriver,rbd=nova.virt.libvirt.volume.LibvirtNetVolumeDriver,sheepdog=nova.virt.libvirt.volume.LibvirtNetVolumeDriver,nfs=nova.virt.libvirt.volume_nfs.NfsVolumeDriver"
>
> - Ray
> Yours faithfully, Kind regards.
>
> CIeNET Technologies (Beijing) Co., Ltd
> Email: qsun01185@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Office Phone: +86-01081470088-7079
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>
>
> On Mon, Jan 14, 2013 at 10:22 PM, Benoit ML <ben42ml@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>> Hello,
>>
>> I've installed openstack Folsom on centos with the epel repo.
>> Basically the all things works on 4 nodes configuration(controller,
>> network and 2 compute). Quantum is configured with GRE and L3
>> services.
>>
>> At my point, i'd like to go futher on the storage part.
>>
>> I'm trying to use the cinder NFS driver to manage volume.  From what I
>> read, the driver is basic : créate/delete volume on an NFS share.
>> Well but I didn't manage to get it work ...  can you help me please ?
>> what I must do ?
>>
>> When I look into the cinder/volume.log, I see that cinder first create
>> a LV, and  try to stat </nfsPath/><bigUUID>  and fail. Why cinder try
>> to créate a LV ? and try to access a directory on the nfs share thaht
>> is not create before ?
>>
>>
>> Moreover if you have any advice for a "good" basic shared storage
>> architecture with Openstack, plz shared the information ;)
>>
>> In cinder.conf :
>> -----------------------------------------------------------------
>> volume_driver=cinder.volume.nfs.NfsDriver
>> state_path = /var/lib/cinder
>> nfs_shares_config=/etc/cinder/shares.conf
>> nfs_mount_point_base = /mnt/exports/volumes/
>> #nfs_sparsed_volumes = True
>> #nfs_disk_util = df
>> lock_path = /var/lib/cinder/tmp
>> -----------------------------------------------------------------
>>
>>
>> Thank you in advance.
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> --
>> --
>> Benoit
>>
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>



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