OpenStack Windows Storage

SMB3, Windows Storage Spaces and more!

Overview

Microsoft Windows Server includes powerful storage features for enterprise customers that can be easily integrated in an OpenStack context thanks to our Cinder drivers.

Storage Spaces Direct, included starting with Windows Server 2016, provides support for hyper-converged environments, reducing drastically the TCO while providing great scalability and fault tolerance. This is achieved by distributing storage across standard disks provided by the datacenter hosts instead of requiring expensive dedicated SAN hardware.

Our Windows Cinder driver also supports Storage Spaces, available since Windows Server 2012 R2 and providing the same features and tools described above but without distributed storage, offering a great match for SAN and other traditional types of storage. Last but not least, we also support the iSCSI target role included in Windows Server 2012 and above.

Features

SMB3 and iSCSI OpenStack block storage volumes
Best volumes option for Hyper-V Nova compute nodes
Designed for hyper-converged deployments with Storage Spaces Direct
Fully integrated in OpenStack
Linux KVM Nova compute nodes supported as well for SMB storage
Alternative iSCSI target feature for wide compatibily
Storage QoS support for tenant / workload prioritization

Supported OS

Windows Server / Hyper-V Server 2008 R2 (until Kilo)

Windows Server / Hyper-V Server 2012

Windows Server / Hyper-V Server 2012 R2 (starting with Havana)

Windows Server / Hyper-V Server 2016 (starting with Kilo)

Windows Server / Hyper-V Server 2019 (starting with Liberty)

Windows 8, 8.1, 10 (Testing / Development only)

Supported OS
Windows Server / Hyper-V Server 2008 R2 (until Kilo)
Windows Server / Hyper-V Server 2012
Windows Server / Hyper-V Server 2012 R2 (starting with Havana)
Windows Server / Hyper-V Server 2016 (starting with Kilo)
Windows Server / Hyper-V Server 2019 (starting with Liberty)
Windows 8, 8.1, 10 (Testing / Development only)

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OpenStack Windows Storage Installer

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Documentation

Read the latest documentation here: https://docs.openstack.org/cinder/latest/install/index-windows

Expand the section below to explore all the supported features.

Please be aware that the accuracy / completeness of the following (and given the basic characteristics of a wiki) is generally evolving and given its state of flux should be considered in draft state. Please refer to respective vendor’s documentation for a more authoritative indication of support.

Data source: https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/CinderSupportMatrix

Cinder

Driver	Windows Server	EMC VMAX	GlusterFS	HP 3PAR	IBM Storwize family/SVC	NetApp Data ONTAP	NetApp E/EF-series	RBD (Ceph)	SolidFire	VMware
Create Volume	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●
Delete Volume	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●
Attach Volume	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●
Detach Volume	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●
Extend Volume	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●
Create Snapshot	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●
Delete Snapshot	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●
List Snapshots	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●
Create Volume from Snapshot	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●
Create Volume from Image	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●
Create Volume from Volume (Clone)	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●
Create Image from Volume	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●
Volume Migration (host assisted)	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	❌︎	●	❌︎
QoS	❌︎	❌︎	❌︎	●	●	●	❌︎	❌︎	●	❌︎
Volume Replication	❌︎	❌︎	❌︎	❌︎	●	●	❌︎	❌︎	❌︎	❌︎
Consistency Group	❌︎	●	❌︎	❌︎	●	❌︎	❌︎	❌︎	❌︎	❌︎