Todo
rework after iSCSI merge (see ‘Old Docs’) (todd or vish)
Volume manager manages creating, attaching, detaching, and persistent storage.
Persistant storage volumes keep their state independent of instances. You can attach to an instance, terminate the instance, spawn a new instance (even one from a different image) and re-attach the volume with the same data intact.
Related Flags
volume_topic: | What rpc topic to listen to (default: volume). |
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volume_manager: | The module name of a class derived from manager.Manager (default: nova.volume.manager.AOEManager). |
storage_availability_zone: | |
Defaults to nova. | |
volume_driver: | Used by AOEManager. Defaults to nova.volume.driver.AOEDriver. |
num_shelves: | Number of shelves for AoE (default: 100). |
num_blades: | Number of vblades per shelf to allocate AoE storage from (default: 16). |
volume_group: | Name of the group that will contain exported volumes (default: nova-volumes) |
aoe_eth_dev: | Device name the volumes will be exported on (default: eth0). |
num_shell_tries: | |
Number of times to attempt to run AoE commands (default: 3) |
Bases: nova.manager.SchedulerDependentManager
Manages attachable block storage devices.
Make sure whether volume is exported.
Creates and exports the snapshot.
Creates and exports the volume.
Deletes and unexports snapshot.
Deletes and unexports volume.
Do any initialization that needs to be run if this is a standalone service.
Tasks to be run at a periodic interval.
Remove remote volume on compute host.
Setup remote volume on compute host.
Returns path to device.
Drivers for volumes.
Bases: nova.volume.driver.VolumeDriver
WARNING! Deprecated. This driver will be removed in Essex. Its use is not recommended.
Implements AOE specific volume commands.
Make sure volume is exported.
Creates an export for a logical volume.
Discover volume on a remote host.
Removes an export for a logical volume.
Undiscover volume on a remote host.
Bases: nova.volume.driver.ISCSIDriver
Logs calls instead of executing.
No setup necessary in fake mode.
Discover volume on a remote host.
Execute that simply logs the command.
Undiscover volume on a remote host.
Bases: nova.volume.driver.VolumeDriver
Executes commands relating to ISCSI volumes.
We make use of model provider properties as follows:
Provider_location : | |
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if present, contains the iSCSI target information in the same format as an ietadm discovery i.e. ‘<ip>:<port>,<portal> <target IQN>’ | |
Provider_auth : | if present, contains a space-separated triple: ‘<auth method> <auth username> <auth password>’. CHAP is the only auth_method in use at the moment. |
Make sure volume is exported.
Creates an export for a logical volume.
Discover volume on a remote host.
Synchronously recreates an export for a logical volume.
Removes an export for a logical volume.
Undiscover volume on a remote host.
Bases: nova.volume.driver.VolumeDriver
Logs and records calls, for unit tests.
Logs the command.
Bases: nova.volume.driver.VolumeDriver
Implements RADOS block device (RBD) volume commands
Returns an error if prerequisites aren’t met
Exports the volume
Creates an rbd snapshot
Creates a logical volume.
Deletes an rbd snapshot
Deletes a logical volume.
Discover volume on a remote host
Synchronously recreates an export for a logical volume.
Returns the path of the rbd volume.
Removes an export for a logical volume
Undiscover volume on a remote host
Bases: nova.volume.driver.VolumeDriver
Executes commands relating to Sheepdog Volumes
Returns an error if prerequisites aren’t met
Exports the volume
Creates a sheepdog snapshot
Creates a sheepdog volume
Creates a sheepdog volume from a snapshot.
Deletes a sheepdog snapshot
Deletes a logical volume
Discover volume on a remote host
Safely and synchronously recreates an export for a logical volume
Removes an export for a logical volume
Undiscover volume on a remote host
Bases: object
Executes commands relating to Volumes.
Make sure volume is exported.
Returns an error if prerequisites aren’t met
Exports the volume. Can optionally return a Dictionary of changes to the volume object to be persisted.
Creates a snapshot.
Creates a logical volume. Can optionally return a Dictionary of changes to the volume object to be persisted.
Creates a volume from a snapshot.
Deletes a snapshot.
Deletes a logical volume.
Discover volume on a remote host.
Synchronously recreates an export for a logical volume.
Return the current state of the volume service. If ‘refresh’ is True, run the update first.
Removes an export for a logical volume.
Undiscover volume on a remote host.
Bases: nova.volume.driver.ISCSIDriver
Performs actions to configure Zadara BE module.
No setup necessary for Zadara BE.
create BE export for a volume
Nothing required for snapshot
Creates BE volume.
Nothing required to delete a snapshot
Deletes BE volume.
ensure BE export for a volume
Return the current state of the volume service. If ‘refresh’ is True, run the update first.
Removes BE export for a volume.
Nova uses ata-over-ethernet (AoE) to export storage volumes from multiple storage nodes. These AoE exports are attached (using libvirt) directly to running instances.
Nova volumes are exported over the primary system VLAN (usually VLAN 1), and not over individual VLANs.
AoE exports are numbered according to a “shelf and blade” syntax. In order to avoid collisions, we currently perform an AoE-discover of existing exports, and then grab the next unused number. (This obviously has race condition problems, and should be replaced by allocating a shelf-id to each storage node.)
The underlying volumes are LVM logical volumes, created on demand within a single large volume group.