Cinder – Windows Server Storage

Openstack Cinder Volume for Microsoft Windows Server 2012 and above

Overview

Cinder includes two Windows specific volume drivers that we contributed for managing the Windows iSCSI Target Server and Windows File Server (SMB) shares.

Both drivers are supported by Nova for both KVM and Hyper-V compute nodes. When used in conjunction with the Failover Clustering and Active Directory charms, the nodes become a Scale-Out File Server cluster, which together with the SMB3 protocol provides high availability and scalability features for Hyper-V compute nodes volumes management.

Screenshots

Usage

juju deploy windows-cinder
juju add-relation windows-cinder rabbitmq-server
juju add-relation windows-cinder glance
juju add-relation windows-cinder mysql

juju deploy windows-cinder

juju add-relation windows-cinder rabbitmq-server

juju add-relation windows-cinder glance

juju add-relation windows-cinder mysql

The Cinder Volume deployment can be configured to use one of the two supported drivers:

cinder.volume.drivers.windows.windows.WindowsDriver
cinder.volume.drivers.windows.smbfs.WindowsSmbfsDriver

1 2	cinder.volume.drivers.windows.windows.WindowsDriver cinder.volume.drivers.windows.smbfs.WindowsSmbfsDriver

If the volume driver is set to cinder.volume.drivers.windows.smbfs.WindowsSmbfsDriver, the volumes-path value is where the required SMB share will be created.
If volume driver is set to cinder.volume.drivers.windows.windows.WindowsDriver, the volumes-path value is where the ISCSI virtual disks will be created.

Configuration

Option	Description	Type	Default Value
openstack-origin	Version of Openstack Cinder Volume to install. Choices are: – juno	string	juno
verbose	Enable verbose logging	boolean	False
database	Database to request access.	string	cinder
volume-driver	Cinder volume driver. Choices are: – cinder.volume.drivers.windows.windows.WindowsDriver – cinder.volume.drivers.windows.smbfs.WindowsSmbfsDriver	string	cinder.volume.drivers.windows. windows.WindowsDriver
rabbit-vhost	RabbitMQ virtual host to request access on rabbitmq-server.	string	openstack
cache-images	If set to true, it will cache Glance images for improved performance.	boolean	False
rabbit-user	Username to request access on rabbitmq-server.	string	cinder
debug	Enable debug logging	boolean	False
database-user	Username to request database access.	string	cinder
installer-url	Overwrites the default installer location.	string	None
volumes-path	If volume-driver is cinder.volume.drivers.windows.smbfs.WindowsSmbfsDriver, this is the path where a samba share will be created. If volume-driver is cinder.volume.drivers.windows.windows.WindowsDriver, this is the path where the iscsi virtual disks will be created.	string	C:cinder-volumes