NetApp E-series infiniband support for Cinder

Jay Bryant jungleboyj at gmail.com
Mon Jun 24 21:50:44 UTC 2019


Erlon,

Good point.  Hadn't thought about the fact that it never did support IB.

Jay

On 6/24/2019 3:18 PM, Erlon Cruz wrote:
> Hi Grant,
>
> As Gorka said, support for eseries was dropped in Stein, but even if 
> not it never supported infiniband.
>
> Erlon
>
> Em sex, 21 de jun de 2019 às 06:36, Gorka Eguileor 
> <geguileo at redhat.com <mailto:geguileo at redhat.com>> escreveu:
>
>     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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>
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