[cinder] Cinder Volume Active/Active Support

Sean McGinnis sean.mcginnis at gmx.com
Thu Mar 28 15:44:44 UTC 2019


On Thu, Mar 28, 2019 at 08:56:25AM -0500, Ben Nemec wrote:
> Fixed the cinder tag so this should show up for people who filter on it.
>
> On 3/28/19 3:18 AM, vkalaitzis wrote:
> > I would like to ask if cinder-volume supports active/active setups.
> > I found that there was a blueprint for adding support (https://blueprints.launchpad.net/cinder/+spec/cinder-volume-active-active-support),
> > but as far as I am concerned, no official documentation of such feature
> > exists so far.
>
> My understanding is that Cinder does support active-active configuration
> now, but someone from the Cinder team will have to provide details.
>

The support is merged in Cinder for active/active, but the hold up now has been
getting Cinder driver maintainers to certify their drivers and storage devices
will work correctly when running in that configuration.

I seem to recall some work being done with the Ceph/RBD driver, but I don't
believe anything has merged for any drivers to enable that.



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