Intel Rack Scale Design (RSD) driver¶
The Intel Rack Scale Design volume driver is a block storage driver providing NVMe-oF support for RSD storage.
System requirements¶
To use the RSD driver, the following requirements are needed:
- The driver only supports RSD API at version 2.4 or later.
- The driver requires rsd-lib.
cinder-volumeshould be running on one of the composed node in RSD, and have access to the PODM url.- All the
nova-computeservices should be running on the composed nodes in RSD. - All the
cinder-volumeandnova-computenodes should have installeddmidecodeand the latestnvme-cliwith connect/disconnect subcommands.
Supported operations¶
- Create, delete volumes.
- Attach, detach volumes.
- Copy an image to a volume.
- Copy a volume to an image.
- Create, delete snapshots.
- Create a volume from a snapshot.
- Clone a volume.
- Extend a volume.
- Get volume statistics.
Configuration¶
On cinder-volume nodes, using the following configurations in your
/etc/cinder/cinder.conf:
volume_driver = cinder.volume.drivers.rsd.RSDDriver
The following table contains the configuration options supported by the RSD driver:
| Configuration option = Default value | Description |
|---|---|
podm_password = <> |
(String) Password of PODM service |
podm_url = <> |
(String) URL of PODM service |
podm_username = <> |
(String) Username of PODM service |
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