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On Mon, Jul 15, 2019 at 4:11 AM Tomáš Bredár <tomas.bredar at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi Alan!
> Thanks for the pointers. For now I'm going with a single backend with two
> NFS shares, so I'll use the tripleo templates for netapp.
> For the future, could you point me to the right template / puppet-cinder
> code which can create multiple nfs share files for me? Or should I create
> my own puppet manifest?
>

Hi Tomas,

The puppet-cinder code that renders the shares config file is [1], and the
data comes from puppet-tripleo [2]. This is puppet hiera data, and the
value is bound to the CindeNetappNfsShares tripleo parameter [3].

So you should be able to deploy a single backend that accesses multiple
shares by adding something like this to your tripleo deployment.

parameter_defaults:
  CinderNetappNfsShares: 'host_1:/path/to/share_1,host_2:/path/to/share_2'

[1]
https://opendev.org/openstack/puppet-cinder/src/branch/stable/queens/manifests/backend/netapp.pp#L280
[2]
https://opendev.org/openstack/puppet-tripleo/src/branch/stable/queens/manifests/profile/base/cinder/volume/netapp.pp#L38
[3]
https://opendev.org/openstack/tripleo-heat-templates/src/branch/stable/queens/puppet/services/cinder-backend-netapp.yaml#L137

Alan

Thanks again.
>
> Tomas
>
> pi 12. 7. 2019 o 16:11 Alan Bishop <abishop at redhat.com> napísal(a):
>
>>
>> On Fri, Jul 12, 2019 at 6:09 AM Tomáš Bredár <tomas.bredar at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi Emilien!
>>>
>>> Thanks for your help. Yes with this I am able to define multiple stanzas
>>> in cinder.conf. However netapp driver needs a .conf file with the nfs
>>> shares listed in it. Defining multiple configuration files with nfs share
>>> details in each is not possible with the manual you've sent nor with the
>>> templates in my first email.
>>>
>>
>> Hi Tomas,
>>
>> When deploying a single backend, the tripleo template takes care of
>> generating the nfs shares file (actually, puppet-cinder generates the file,
>> but it's triggered by tripleo). But when you use the custom backend method
>> that Emilien pointed you to use, then you are responsible for supplying all
>> the pieces for the backend(s) to function correctly. This means you will
>> need to generate the nfs shares file on the host (controller), and then
>> bind mount the file using CinderVolumeOptVolumes so that the shares file on
>> the host is visible to the cinder-volume process running in a container.
>>
>> I'm wondering if it's possible to define a second backend by creating
>>> another service, for example "OS::TripleO::Services::CinderBackendNetApp2" ?
>>>
>>
>> Sorry, this won't work. TripleO will trying to deploy two completely
>> separate instances of the cinder-volume service, but the two deployments
>> will step all over each other. There has been a long standing goal of
>> enhancing tripleo so that it can deploy multiple instances of a cinder
>> backend, but it's a complex task that will require non-trivial changes to
>> tripleo.
>>
>> Alan
>>
>> Tomas
>>>
>>> št 11. 7. 2019 o 14:35 Emilien Macchi <emilien at redhat.com> napísal(a):
>>>
>>>> On Thu, Jul 11, 2019 at 7:32 AM Tomáš Bredár <tomas.bredar at gmail.com>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Hi community,
>>>>>
>>>>> I'm trying to define multiple NetApp storage backends via Tripleo
>>>>> installer.
>>>>> According to [1] the puppet manifest supports multiple backends.
>>>>> The current templates [2] [3] support only single backend.
>>>>> Does anyone know how to define multiple netapp backends in the
>>>>> tripleo-heat environment files / templates?
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> We don't support that via the templates that you linked, however if you
>>>> follow this manual you should be able to configure multiple NetApp backends:
>>>>
>>>> https://docs.openstack.org/tripleo-docs/latest/install/advanced_deployment/cinder_custom_backend.html
>>>>
>>>> Let us know how it worked!
>>>> --
>>>> Emilien Macchi
>>>>
>>>
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