<div dir="ltr">Hi Yang I really appreciate your information, as soon as I run the tests I'll let you guys know. <div><br></div><div>Thanks</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">2014-10-10 15:02 GMT-03:00 yang, xing <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:xing.yang@emc.com" target="_blank">xing.yang@emc.com</a>></span>:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">





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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">If you are using VNX in Icehouse, this is the recommended one:<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://github.com/emc-openstack/vnx-direct-driver/blob/master/README_FC.md" target="_blank">https://github.com/emc-openstack/vnx-direct-driver/blob/master/README_FC.md</a><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d"><u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">More comments below.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">Thanks,<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif""> Juan José Pavlik Salles [mailto:<a href="mailto:jjpavlik@gmail.com" target="_blank">jjpavlik@gmail.com</a>]
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<b>Sent:</b> Friday, October 10, 2014 12:13 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> <a href="mailto:openstack-operators@lists.openstack.org" target="_blank">openstack-operators@lists.openstack.org</a><br>
<b>Subject:</b> [Openstack-operators] Cinder with EMC VNX<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Hi guys, I'm about to deploy a small cloud (Ubuntu Trusty + OpenStack Icehouse) using an EMC VNX as cinder backend. So far I've seen at least four different possibilities to use this storage:<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">-<a href="http://docs.openstack.org/icehouse/config-reference/content/emc-vnx-direct-driver.html" target="_blank">http://docs.openstack.org/icehouse/config-reference/content/emc-vnx-direct-driver.html</a> just iSCSI, no FC.<span style="color:#1f497d"> 
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</span><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">[Xing] This driver works for iSCSI, but we can’t backport FC driver and other new features to Icehouse.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">-<a href="http://docs.openstack.org/icehouse/config-reference/content/emc-smis-driver.html" target="_blank">http://docs.openstack.org/icehouse/config-reference/content/emc-smis-driver.html</a> should work with VNX+FC<u></u><u></u></p>
</span><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">[Xing] The SMI-S based driver will only support VMAX, not VNX, starting from Juno.  So this one is not recommended any more.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">-<a href="http://www.rethinkstorage.com/vipr-and-openstack-integration-how-it-works#.VDdVlulgcuo" target="_blank">http://www.rethinkstorage.com/vipr-and-openstack-integration-how-it-works#.VDdVlulgcuo</a> ViPR solution <u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">[Xing] If you have multiple storage platforms, this is the recommended choice.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">-<a href="https://github.com/emc-openstack/vnx-direct-driver/blob/master/README_FC.md" target="_blank">https://github.com/emc-openstack/vnx-direct-driver/blob/master/README_FC.md</a> EMC official drivers.<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">I'd like to know your eperiences/recomendations about this cinder drivers. Have you tried any of them? <u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Regards,<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Pavlik Salles Juan José<u></u><u></u></p>
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</blockquote></div><br><br clear="all"><div><br></div>-- <br><div dir="ltr">Pavlik Salles Juan José<div>Blog - <a href="http://viviendolared.blogspot.com" target="_blank">http://viviendolared.blogspot.com</a></div></div>
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