# Infortrend Driver for OpenStack Manila

The Infortrend Manila driver provides NFS and CIFS shared file systems to Openstack.

## Requirements

- The EonStor GS/GSe series Fireware version 139A23

## Supported shared filesystems and operations

This driver supports NFS and CIFS shares.

The following operations are supported:

- Create CIFS/NFS Share

- Delete CIFS/NFS Share

- Allow CIFS/NFS Share access

  - Only IP access type is supported for NFS (ro/rw).

  - Only USER access type is supported for CIFS (ro/rw).

- Deny CIFS/NFS Share access

- Manage a share.

- Unmanage a share.

- Extend a share.

- Shrink a share.

## Backend Configuration

The following parameters need to be configured in the manila configuration file for the Infortrend driver:

- share_backend_name = <backend name to enable>

- share_driver = manila.share.drivers.infortrend.driver.InfortrendNASDriver

- driver_handles_share_servers = False

- infortrend_nas_ip = <IP address for SSH access to the SAN controller>

- infortrend_nas_user = <username with the ‘edit’ role>

- infortrend_nas_password = <password for the user specified in infortrend_nas_user>

- infortrend_share_pools = <Poolname of the SAN controller>

- infortrend_share_channels = <Data channel for file service in SAN controller>

## Share Types

When creating a share, a share type can be specified to determine where and how the share will be created. If a share type is not specified, the default_share_type set in the manila configuration file is used.

Manila requires that the share type includes the driver_handles_share_servers extra-spec. This ensures that the share will be created on a backend that supports the requested driver_handles_share_servers (share networks) capability. For the Infortrend driver, this must be set to False.

## Back-end configuration example

    [DEFAULT]
    enabled_share_backends = ift-manila
    enabled_share_protocols = NFS, CIFS

    [ift-manila]
    share_backend_name = ift-manila
    share_driver = manila.share.drivers.infortrend.driver.InfortrendNASDriver
    driver_handles_share_servers = False
    infortrend_nas_ip = FAKE_IP
    infortrend_nas_user = FAKE_USER
    infortrend_nas_password = FAKE_PASS
    infortrend_share_pools = pool-1, pool-2
    infortrend_share_channels = 0, 1

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