Open Stack

Jon:

There are several people from Dell that are active in the OpenStack community, they're probably good points of contact to engage with Dell on this issue. Two names I know of offhand are:

- Stephen Spector
- Rob Hirschfeld

Take care,

Lorin
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Lorin Hochstein
Lead Architect - Cloud Services
Nimbis Services, Inc.
www.nimbisservices.com


On Jul 28, 2012, at 9:44 PM, Jonathan Proulx <jon at jonproulx.com> wrote:

> It does look like nova/volume/san.py could be extended to use the
> EqlCliExec.py utility from the Equallogic SDK, unfortunately all the
> pieces of the SDK are full of this copyright:
> 
> Copyright (C) 2009 by Dell, Inc.
> 
> All rights reserved.  This software may not be copied, disclosed,
> transferred, or used except in accordance with a license granted
> by Dell, Inc.  This software embodies proprietary information
> and trade secrets of Dell, Inc
> 
> So unless we can talk Dell into being more sane with licensing, full
> and proper integration with OpenStack is unlikely.
> 
> -Jon
> 
> On Sat, Jul 28, 2012 at 6:35 PM, Jonathan Proulx <jon at jonproulx.com> wrote:
>> Hi Tom,
>> 
>> Hopefully someone has a better answer for you as I'm still relatively
>> new to OpenStack myself, but I looked into this a little while ago
>> because I too have an Equalogic SAN and KVM hypervisors.  The
>> Equalogic connector in that equation is provided by XenServer not
>> OpenStack (in fact I think but am less sure that it isn't even part of
>> the opensource xen).
>> 
>> Since I'm running a research system I can take some risks and have
>> decided to go this Ceph for my storage needs, if I were in your HA
>> needing shoes I'd look at how much coding was required to hook
>> Equalogic's API (which exists but I haven't looked at in years) into
>> the nova-volume service, you could be someone's hero, but I don't
>> think there's any current work toward this.
>> 
>> I'd be happy to be told I'm wrong about that...
>> 
>> -Jon
>> 
>> On Fri, Jul 27, 2012 at 3:13 PM, Thomas Vachon <vachon at sessionm.com> wrote:
>>> Hi All,
>>> 
>>> We are architecting our system for KVM (as it is the best hypervisor for
>>> your money for HA networking) and a SAN for HA nova-volumes.  The only
>>> reference to being able to use a SAN is with XenServer as the hypervisor.  I
>>> have no problem giving a server permission to create luns (or pre-creating
>>> them if I have to) for now.  I want to make sure I can point all the stuff
>>> to the SAN instead of doing some half-hearted attempt by using a box as a
>>> proxy.
>>> 
>>> Our san is an EQL so iSCSI is easy.  Also, we run our "san" net on a
>>> separate 10Gbe set of interfaces (all the servers have connectivity into the
>>> SAN layer).
>>> 
>>> Any thoughts?
>>> 
>>> --
>>> Thomas Vachon
>>> Principal Operations Architect
>>> session M
>>> 
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