# Infortrend Manila driver

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

## Requirements

To use the Infortrend Manila driver, the following items are required:

- GS/GSe Family firmware version v73.1.0-4 and later.

- Configure at least one channel for shared file systems.

## Supported shared filesystems and operations

This driver supports NFS and CIFS shares.

The following operations are supported:

- Create a share.

- Delete a share.

- Allow share access.

  Note the following limitations:

  - Only IP access type is supported for NFS.

  - Only user access type is supported for CIFS.

- Deny share access.

- Manage a share.

- Unmanage a share.

- Extend a share.

- Shrink a share.

## Restrictions

The Infortrend manila driver has the following restrictions:

- Only IP access type is supported for NFS.

- Only user access type is supported for CIFS.

- Only file-level data service channel can offer the NAS service.

## Driver configuration

On `manila-share` nodes, set the following in your `/etc/manila/manila.conf`, and use the following options to configure it:

### Driver options

Description of Infortrend Manila driver configuration options
Configuration option = Default value | Description
--- | ---
[DEFAULT] |
`infortrend_nas_ip` = `None` | (String) Infortrend NAS ip. It is the ip for management.
`infortrend_nas_user` = `manila` | (String) Infortrend NAS username.
`infortrend_nas_password` = `None` | (String) Password for the Infortrend NAS server. This is not necessary if infortrend_nas_ssh_key is set.
`infortrend_nas_ssh_key` = `None` | (String) SSH key for the Infortrend NAS server. This is not necessary if infortrend_nas_password is set.
`infortrend_share_pools` = `None` | (String) Infortrend nas pool name list. It is separated with comma.
`infortrend_share_channels` = `None` | (String) Infortrend channels for file service. It is separated with comma.
`infortrend_cli_timeout` = `30` | (Integer) CLI timeout in seconds.

### 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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