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Noted and thank you.
I'm running tripleo deployment.

Thank you.

On Wed, Oct 14, 2020 at 12:53 AM Alan Bishop <abishop at redhat.com> wrote:

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> On Tue, Oct 13, 2020 at 9:50 AM Alan Bishop <abishop at redhat.com> wrote:
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>> On Sun, Oct 11, 2020 at 11:20 PM dangerzone ar <dangerzonen at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
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>>> Hi Team, May I know if anyone has deployed Huawei oceanstor SAN storage
>>> during overcloud deployment?
>>>
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>> Hi,
>>
>> Your use of the term "overcloud" suggests you are using TripleO. My
>> response assumes that is true, and you should probably ignore my response
>> if you're not using TripleO.
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>> I have not deployed TripleO with a Huawei SAN for the cinder backend, but
>> it should be possible.
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>>> (i) Do you need a specific driver to define or download in order to
>>> deploy it?
>>>
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>> See [1] for many details related to deploying the Huawei cinder driver.
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>> [1]
>> https://docs.openstack.org/cinder/rocky/configuration/block-storage/drivers/huawei-storage-driver.html
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> That's the Rocky documentation. I don't know if the documentation has
> changed, but here's a link to the latest version:
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> https://docs.openstack.org/cinder/latest/configuration/block-storage/drivers/huawei-storage-driver.html
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>>> (ii) Can I deploy separately SAN storage after overcloud deployment, I
>>> mean after a month of openstack deployment i want to add SAN storage to my
>>> infrastructure. Is it possible?
>>>
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>> The short answer is yes. TripleO has the ability to deploy additional
>> cinder storage backends via what's known as a stack (i.e. the overcloud)
>> update. The initial overcloud deployment can be done using another cinder
>> backend X, and later you can add a Huawei backend so the overcloud has two
>> backends (X + Huawei).
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>>> (iii)  Please advise me how to deploy Huawei oceanstor SAN storage.
>>>
>>>
>> TripleO does not have specific support for deploying a Huawei SAN, but
>> you can still deploy one by following [2]. That doc describes the technique
>> for how to deploy the Huawei SAN as a "custom" block storage device. The
>> document provides an example for deploying two NetApp backends, but the
>> concept will be the same for you to deploy a single Huawei backend. The key
>> will be crafting the TripleO environment file to configure the Huawei
>> settings described in [1].
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>> [2]
>> https://docs.openstack.org/project-deploy-guide/tripleo-docs/latest/features/cinder_custom_backend.html
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>> One additional thing to note is that I see the Huawei driver requires
>> access to an XML file that contains additional configuration settings.
>> You'll need to get this file onto the overcloud node(s) where the
>> cinder-volume service runs. And if your overcloud services run in
>> containers (as modern TripleO releases do), then you'll need to provide a
>> way for the containerized cinder-volume service to have access to the XML
>> file. Fortunately this can be achieved using a TripleO parameter by
>> including something like this in one of the overcloud deployment's env file:
>>
>> parameter_defaults:
>>   CinderVolumeOptVolumes:
>>     -
>> /etc/cinder/cinder_huawei_conf.xml:/etc/cinder/cinder_huawei_conf.xml:ro
>>
>> That will allow the /etc/cinder/cinder_huawei_conf.xml file installed on
>> the overcloud host to be visible to the cinder-volume service running
>> inside a container.
>>
>> Alan
>>
>>
>>> Please advise further. Thank you
>>>
>>>
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