NetApp Unified Driver for Clustered Data ONTAP with NFS

The NetApp unifed driver for clustered Data ONTAP with NFS is a driver interface from OpenStack block storage to a Data ONTAP cluster system to accomplish provisioning and management of OpenStack volumes on NFS exports provided by the Data ONTAP cluster system. The NetApp unified driver for the Data ONTAP cluster does not require any additional management software to achieve the desired functionality. It uses NetApp APIs to interact with the Data ONTAP cluster.

Configuration Options

To set up the NetApp clustered Data ONTAP NFS driver for Cinder, the following stanza should be added to the Cinder configuration file (cinder.conf):

[myNfsBackend] 
volume_backend_name=myNfsBackend
volume_driver=cinder.volume.drivers.netapp.common.NetAppDriver
netapp_server_hostname=hostname
netapp_server_port=80
netapp_storage_protocol=nfs
netapp_storage_family=ontap_cluster
netapp_login=admin_username
netapp_password=admin_password
netapp_vserver=svm_name
nfs_shares_config=path_to_nfs_exports_file
max_over_subscription_ratio=1.0
reserved_percentage=5

Be sure that the value of the enabled_backends option in the [DEFAULT] stanza includes the name of the stanza you chose for the backend.

	Caution
	Please note that exported qtrees are not supported by Cinder.

Note

	Note
The file referenced in the `nfs_shares_config` configuration option should contain the NFS exports in the `ip:/share` format, for example: 10.63.165.215:/nfs/test 10.63.165.215:/nfs2/test2 where `ip` corresponds to the IP address assigned to a Data LIF, and `share` refers to a junction path for a FlexVol volume within an SVM. Make sure that volumes corresponding to exports have read/write permissions set on the Data ONTAP controllers. For more information on other parameters available to affect the behavior of NetApp's NFS driver, please refer to http://docs.openstack.org/trunk/config-reference/content/nfs-driver-options.html.

The file referenced in the nfs_shares_config configuration option should contain the NFS exports in the ip:/share format, for example:

10.63.165.215:/nfs/test
10.63.165.215:/nfs2/test2

where ip corresponds to the IP address assigned to a Data LIF, and share refers to a junction path for a FlexVol volume within an SVM. Make sure that volumes corresponding to exports have read/write permissions set on the Data ONTAP controllers. For more information on other parameters available to affect the behavior of NetApp's NFS driver, please refer to http://docs.openstack.org/trunk/config-reference/content/nfs-driver-options.html.

Table 4.12, “Configuration options for clustered Data ONTAP with NFS” lists the configuration options available for the unified driver for a clustered Data ONTAP deployment that uses the NFS storage protocol.

Table 4.12. Configuration options for clustered Data ONTAP with NFS
Option	Type	Default Value	Description
`netapp_server_hostname`	Required		The hostname or IP address for the storage system or proxy server. The value of this option should be the IP address of either the cluster management LIF or the SVM management LIF.
`netapp_server_port`	Optional		The TCP port to use for communication with the storage system or proxy server. If not specified, Data ONTAP drivers will use 80 for HTTP and 443 for HTTPS; E-Series will use 8080 for HTTP and 8443 for HTTPS.
`netapp_login`	Required		Administrative user account name used to access the storage system or proxy server.
`netapp_password`	Required		Password for the administrative user account specified in the `netapp_login` option.
`netapp_storage_protocol`	Required		The storage protocol to be used. Valid options are `nfs`, `iscsi`, or `fc`.
`netapp_transport_type`	Required	`http`	Transport protocol for communicating with the storage system or proxy server. Valid options include `http` and `https`.
`netapp_copyoffload_tool_path`	Optional		This option specifies the path of the NetApp copy offload tool binary. Ensure that the binary has execute permissions set which allow the effective user of the cinder-volume process to execute the file.
`netapp_vserver`	Required		This option specifies the storage virtual machine (previously called a Vserver) name on the storage cluster on which provisioning of block storage volumes should occur.
`netapp_storage_family`	Optional	`ontap_cluster`	The storage family type used on the storage system; valid values are `ontap_7mode` for Data ONTAP operating in 7-Mode, `ontap_cluster` for clustered Data ONTAP, or `eseries` for E-Series.
`nfs_shares_config`	Required	`/etc/cinder/nfs_shares`	The file referenced by this configuration option should contain a list of NFS shares, each on their own line, to which the driver should attempt to provision new Cinder volumes into.
`thres_avl_size_perc_start`	Optional	20	If the percentage of available space for an NFS share has dropped below the value specified by this option, the NFS image cache will be cleaned.
`thres_avl_size_perc_stop`	Optional	60	When the percentage of available space on an NFS share has reached the percentage specified by this option, the driver will stop clearing files from the NFS image cache that have not been accessed in the last `M` minutes, where `M` is the value of the `expiry_thres_minutes` configuration option.
`expiry_thres_minutes`	Optional	720	This option specifies the threshold for last access time for images in the NFS image cache. When a cache cleaning cycle begins, images in the cache that have not been accessed in the last `M` minutes, where `M` is the value of this parameter, will be deleted from the cache to create free space on the NFS share.
`reserved_percentage`	Optional	`0`	This option represents the amount of total capacity of a storage pool that will be reserved and cannot be utilized for provisioning Cinder volumes.
`max_over_subscription_ratio`	Optional	`20.0`	This option is defined as a float, and specifies the amount of over-provisioning to allow when thin provisioning is being used in the storage pool. A value of 1.0 will mean that the provisioned capacity will not be able to exceed the total capacity, while larger values will result in increased levels of allowed over-provisioning.

Caution

If you specify an account in the netapp_login option that only has SVM administration privileges (rather than cluster administration privileges), some advanced features of the NetApp unified driver will not work and you may see warnings in the Cinder logs. See the section called “Account Permission Considerations” for more details on the required access level permissions for an SVM admin account.

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