UPSTREAM ALERT

The Manila driver has been accepted into upstream OpenStack Xena (now released)

We recommend that, where possible, you use the upstream version of the driver rather than this repo version.

Whilst this repo version is essentially the same, all bugfixes and feature adds will only happen in the upstream OpenStack codebase.

If you need to backport the upstream driver to previous versions use the upstream driver code and the instructions in this repo.

OpenStack-Manila

Manila driver for Pure Storage FlashBlade

Installation Instructions

This driver has been tested on all release from the Rocky release.

The code presented here mirrors the code submitted to Manila for the Xena release.

Support for this driver will be on a best-efforts basis and there is no guarantee that driver will work in versions of OpenStack earlier than Rocky.

A prerequisite for installing this driver is that you must have the Manila project already installed in your OpenStack deployment.

In you Manila directory structure you must first create a manila/share/drivers/purestorage directory and then add the supplied Python driver file into this directory.

You must also modify the manila/opts.py file to understand that the Pure Storage FlashBlade driver is available for use by performing the following steps:

• Edit the file by adding the following line into the top of the file along with the other import commands:

import manila.share.drivers.purestorage.flashblade

• and in the section _global_opt_lists add the following lines:

manila.share.drivers.purestorage.flashblade.flashblade_auth_opts,
manila.share.drivers.purestorage.flashblade.flashblade_extra_opts,
manila.share.drivers.purestorage.flashblade.flashblade_connection_opts,

• Restart the Manila Share service to enable the Pure Storage FlashBlade driver.

Usage Instructions

Pure Storage FlashBlade driver

The Pure Storage FlashBlade driver provides support for managing filesystem shares on the Pure Storage FlashBlade storage systems.

This section explains how to configure the FlashBlade driver.

Supported operations

• Create and delete CIFS/NFS shares.

• Extend/Shrink a share.

• Create and delete filesystem snapshots.

• Revert to Snapshot.

• Set access rights to shares.

  Note the following limitations:

  • Only IP and USER access types are supported.
  • Both RW and RO access levels are supported.

External package installation

The driver requires the purity_fb package for communicating with FlashBlade systems. Install the package from PyPI using the following command:

$ pip install purity_fb

Driver configuration

Edit the manila.conf file, which is usually located under the following path /etc/manila/manila.conf.

• Add a section for the FlashBlade driver back end.
• Under the [DEFAULT] section, set the enabled_share_backends parameter with the name of the new back-end section.

Configure the driver back-end section with the parameters below.

• Configure the driver name by setting the following parameter:

  share_driver = manila.share.drivers.purestorage.flashblade.FlashBladeShareDriver

• Configure the management and data VIPs of the FlashBlade array by adding the following parameters:

  flashblade_mgmt_vip = FlashBlade management VIP
  flashblade_data_vip = FlashBlade data VIP

• Configure user credentials:

  The driver requires a FlashBlade user with administrative privileges. We recommend creating a dedicated OpenStack user account that holds an administrative user role. Refer to the FlashBlade manuals for details on user account management. Configure the user credentials by adding the following parameters:

  flashblade_api = FlashBlade API token for admin-privileged user

• (Optional) Configure File System and Snapshot Eradication:

  The option, when enabled, all FlashBlade file systems and snapshots will be eradicated at the time of deletion in Manila. Data will NOT be recoverable after a delete with this set to True! When disabled, file systems and snapshots will go into pending eradication state and can be recovered. The default setting is False.

  flashblade_eradicate = { True | False }

• The back-end name is an identifier for the back end. We recommend using the same name as the name of the section. Configure the back-end name by adding the following parameter:

  share_backend_name = back-end name

Configuration example

[DEFAULT]
enabled_share_backends = flashblade-1

[flashblade-1]
share_driver = manila.share.drivers.purestorage.flashblade.FlashBladeShareDriver
share_backend_name = flashblade-1
driver_handles_share_servers = false
flashblade_mgmt_vip = 10.1.2.3
flashblade_data_vip = 10.1.2.4
flashblade_api = pureuser API

Driver options

Configuration options specific to this driver:

Description of Pure Storage FlashBlade share driver configuration options

Configuration option = Default value	Description
[DEFAULT]
flashblade_mgmt_vip = None	(String) The name (or IP address) for the Pure Storage FlashBlade storage system management port.
flashblade_data_vip = None	(String) The name (or IP address) for the Pure Storage FlashBlade storage system data port.
flashblade_api = None	(String) API token for an administrative level user account.
flashblade_eradicate = True	(Boolean) Enable or disable filesystem and snapshot eradication on delete.