NetApp E-series infiniband support for Cinder

Gorka Eguileor geguileo at redhat.com
Fri Jun 21 09:11:59 UTC 2019


On 20/06, Grant Morley wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> Just a quick one to see if anybody knows if there is currently any
> infiniband support for cinder using a NetApp E-Series SAN. I have had a look
> at:
>
> https://docs.openstack.org/cinder/queens/configuration/block-storage/drivers/netapp-volume-driver.html
>
> and:
>
> https://docs.openstack.org/cinder/rocky/reference/support-matrix.html
>
> They seem to suggest that only iSCSI and FC are supported. I just want to
> make sure before I start trying to do a POC with the E-series and
> infiniband.
>
> Any advice would be much appreciated.
>
> Kind Regards,
>
> --
>
> Grant Morley
> Cloud Lead, Civo Ltd
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Hi,

I don't know about support for infiniband, but the driver support has
been dropped in Stein.

The release notes [1] state:

  Support for NetApp E-Series has been removed. The NetApp Unified
  driver can now only be used with NetApp Clustered Data ONTAP.

Regards,
Gorka.

[1]: https://docs.openstack.org/releasenotes/cinder/stein.html



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