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| author | Vladislav Belogrudov <vladislav.belogrudov@oracle.com> | 2016-08-17 18:07:10 +0300 |
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| committer | Vladislav Belogrudov <vladislav.belogrudov@oracle.com> | 2016-09-21 12:28:07 +0000 |
| commit | b1f986c3492faa2d5386fc7baabbd6d8e370554a (patch) | |
| tree | 2f47c44219645b79383e1533a72322b2566c5d55 /doc | |
| parent | d10015dbeac57c088e13d8931afeb8e0bbd86645 (diff) | |
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Cinder cannot use external non-LVM iSCSI storage
Currently Cinder enables iscsid service only when LVM is choosen as
backend. This fix will allow to specify external iSCSI storage via
configuration add-on and to run iscsid independently of LVM settings.
Change-Id: Iaae0f8025534e5ab1c5f9d5e812a7d41129915ef
Closes-Bug: 1614125
Diffstat (limited to 'doc')
| -rw-r--r-- | doc/cinder-guide.rst | 12 |
1 files changed, 11 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/doc/cinder-guide.rst b/doc/cinder-guide.rst index aee91b331..66ac8b123 100644 --- a/doc/cinder-guide.rst +++ b/doc/cinder-guide.rst @@ -97,7 +97,7 @@ between nova-compute process and the server hosting LVG. In order to use Cinder's LVM backend, a LVG named ``cinder-volumes`` should exist on the server and following parameter must be specified in -``globals.yml``. :: +``globals.yml`` :: enable_cinder_backend_lvm: "yes" @@ -126,3 +126,13 @@ targeted for nova compute role. :: mount -t configfs /etc/rc.local /sys/kernel/config + +Cinder backend with external iSCSI storage +========================================== + +In order to use external storage system (like one from EMC or NetApp) +the following parameter must be specified in ``globals.yml`` :: + + enable_cinder_backend_iscsi: "yes" + +Also ``enable_cinder_backend_lvm`` should be set to "no" in this case. |