NetApp E-series infiniband support for Cinder

Gorka Eguileor geguileo at redhat.com
Fri Jun 21 09:30:30 UTC 2019


On 21/06, Grant Morley wrote:
> Hi Gorka,
>
> Thanks for that, I'll let the business know that we wont want to be using
> that. We had planned to move to Stein later this year!
>
> Regards,

Glad I could help avoid that awkward moment.  ;-)



>
> On 21/06/2019 10:11, Gorka Eguileor wrote:
> > 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
> --
>
> Grant Morley
> Cloud Lead, Civo Ltd
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