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OpenStack Block Storage
OpenStack Storage and Cinder Interactive Discussion!!!
Gene Dubensky, SE, [email protected]
Ed Balduf, Cloud Architect – OpenStack, [email protected]
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Who are these guys?
PRESENTER: Gene Dubensky, Systems Engineer in MD/DC/VA, at SolidFire Inc. which is based in Boulder, CO.
Formerly Cisco and Sun.
CONTENT CREATOR: Ed Balduf, Cloud Solutions Architect – OpenStack at SolidFire Inc.
Formerly Fusion-io/SanDisk and NetApp. Developed OpenStack drivers for Fusion-io arrays. Now responsible for OpenStack Solutions at SolidFire.
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Quick Poll: ● How many of you contribute to OpenStack?
● How many of you are end-users of OpenStack?
● How many of you are OpenStack Operators?
● How many of you work for Vendor Organizations that contribute to OpenStack?
● How many are “all of the above”?
● How many just heard there was free Beer and Food?
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● Ephemeral
● Non-Persistent ● Life Cycle coincides with an Instance ● Usually local FS/QCOW file
● Object
● Manages data as.. well, an Object ● Think photos, mp4’s etc ● Typically “cheap and deep” ● Commonly SWIFT
● Shared FS
● We all know and love NFS ● Soon to be Manila
Number of different types of Storage in OpenStack, each serving a different use case
● Block
● Foundation for the other types
● Think raw disk
● Typically higher performance
● Cinder
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Most common question, difference between Object and Block?
Cinder / Block Storage Swift / Object Storage
Objectives ● Storage for running VM disk
volumes on a host ● Ideal for performance sensitive apps ● Enables Amazon EBS-like service
● Ideal for cost effective, scale-out storage ● Fully distributed, API-accessible ● Well suited for backup, archiving, data retention ● Enables Dropbox-like service
Use Cases
● Production Applications ● Traditional IT Systems ● Database Driven Apps ● Messaging / Collaboration ● Dev / Test Systems
● VM Templates ● ISO Images ● Disk Volume Snapshots ● Backup / Archive ● Image / Video Repository
Workloads ● High Change Content ● Smaller, Random R/W ● Higher / “Bursty” IO
● Typically More Static Content ● Larger, Sequential R/W ● Lower IOPS
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Cinder Mission Statement To implement services and libraries to provide on demand, self-service
access to Block Storage resources. Provide Software Defined Block Storage via abstraction and automation on top of various traditional backend block storage devices.
Huh? So it’s simply allowing you to dynamically create/attach/detach disks to your
Nova Instances. Those are the basics, much more advanced capabilities will depend on the version of OpenStack/Cinder and storage vendors’ exposed advanced features.
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How it works ● Plugin architecture, use your own vendors
backend(s) or use the default
● Backend devices invisible to end-user ● Consistent API regardless of backend ● Filter Scheduler let’s you get fancy ● expose differentiating features via custom
volume-types and extra-specs
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Cinder Default/Reference Implementation Includes
● Base implementation using LVM ● Just add disks ● Great for POC and getting started ● Sometimes good enough ● Might be lacking for your performance, H/A and Scaling needs (it all depends) ● Can Scale by adding Nodes ● Cinder-Volume Node utilizes it’s local disks (allocate by creating an LVM VG) ● Cinder Volumes are LVM Logical Volumes, with an iSCSI target created for each
➔ Typical max size recommendations per VG/Cinder-Volume backend ~ 5 TB ➔ No Redundancy (yet)
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Sometimes LVM Isn’t Enough
* datera * fujitsu_eternus * fusionio * hitachi-hbsd * hauwei * nimble * prophetstor * pure * zfssa * New as of Juno Release
coraid emc-vmax emc-xtremio eqlx glusterfc hds ibm-gpfs ibm-xiv lvm netapp nexenta nfs
Ceph RBD HP-3Par HP-LeftHand scality sheepdog smbfs SolidFire vmware-vmdk window-hyperv zadara
Plugin Architecture gives you choices (maybe too many) and you can mix them together:
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Adding Cinder conf file entries #Append to /etc/cinder.conf enabled_backends=lvm,solidfire [lvm] volume_group=cinder_volumes volume_driver=cinder.volume.drivers.lvm.LVMISCSIDriver volume_backend_name=LVM_iSCSI [solidfire] volume_driver=cinder.volume.drivers.solidfire.SolidFire san_ip=192.168.138.180 san_login=admin san_password=solidfire volume_backend_name=SolidFire
Then restart Cinder service
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With Juno release of OpenStack!!!
● November 2014 is the fifth release of Cinder!!!! ● Major emphasis on testing and compatibility ● Running Third Party Continuous Integration’s (CI’s) on Vendors gear in their own labs
against each Cinder commit ● Manage/Unmanage (or Import/Export) of Volumes widely available
★ Introduced support for Pools for those devices that still have that concept ★ Introduced support for Replication ★ Introduced support for Consistency Groups ★ Continued improvements to Cinder-Backup making way towards incrementals
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New Cinder capabilities in Kilo
★ 6th release of Cinder ★ It’s all about QUALITY ★ Running 3rd party Continuous Integration’s (CI’s) on Vendor gear ★ De-emphasizing new features (i.e. finish the ones we have and make them rock solid) ★ Redundancy for base LVM implementation (didn’t make it) ★ Private Volume types ★ iSCSI helper choices for LVM ★ iSCSI Multi-attach – still needs support in Nova. ★ Incremental Backups ★ Rolling Upgrades!!
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Plans for Liberty version of Cinder
Some Highlights: ★ Multi-pathing ★ Image caching (SolidFire’s implementation in Kilo to be generalized in Liberty) ★ Backup Improvements (faster & more flexible) ★ Improvements for Replication
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Making choices can be the HARDEST part!
● Each has their own merits ● Some excel at specific use cases
● Maybe you already own the gear ● TCO, TCO, TCO
Ask yourself:
➔ Does it scale? How muchstorage functionality exposed via Cinder? ➔ Is the architecture a good fit?
➔ Is it tested, will it really work in OpenStack? ➔ Support?
➔ What about performance and noisy neighbors?
➔ Third party CI testing? ➔ Active in the OpenStack Community?
➔ DIY, Services, both/neither (SolidFire AI, Fuel, JuJu, Nebula….)
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SolidFire’s Scale-Out Block Storage System Designed from the start for OpenStack and other cloud platforms
● Multi-Tenant & Multi-Workload architecture ● With ability to guarantee storage performance to each tenant/
workload/volume.
● Designed for “Cloud-Scale” Deployments ● Linear non-disruptive platform growth or shrinkage
● Including complete software/hardware upgrades
● Automation top priority in API design ● Built to deploy in an OpenStack environment ● Extreme fault tolerance with automatic self-healing
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SolidFire & Cinder
● Full SolidFire driver integration with latest OpenStack software release
● Set and maintain true QoS levels on a per-volume basis ● Create, snapshot, clone, extend and manage SolidFire
volumes using OpenStack clients and APIs ● Run instances on a SolidFire volume ● Web-based API exposing all cluster functionality ● SolidFire integration with Cinder can be configured in
less than a minute all you need is network connectivity, everything else is in OpenStack packages.
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Related Resources
● OpenStack Solution Page ● OpenStack Solution Brief ● SolidFire/Cinder Reference Architecture ● OpenStack Configuration Guide ● SolidFire/Rackspace Private Cloud
Implementation Guide ● Video: Configuring OpenStack Block Storage w/
SolidFire
● Blogs ● OpenStack Summit Recap: Mindshare
Achieved, Market Share Must Follow ● Separating from the Pack ● Why OpenStack Matters
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Creating types and extra-specs
griff@stack-‐1: cinder type create super +-‐-‐-‐-‐-‐-‐-‐-‐-‐-‐-‐-‐-‐-‐-‐-‐-‐-‐-‐-‐-‐-‐-‐-‐-‐-‐-‐-‐-‐-‐-‐-‐-‐-‐-‐-‐-‐-‐+-‐-‐-‐-‐-‐-‐-‐+ | ID | Name | +-‐-‐-‐-‐-‐-‐-‐-‐-‐-‐-‐-‐-‐-‐-‐-‐-‐-‐-‐-‐-‐-‐-‐-‐-‐-‐-‐-‐-‐-‐-‐-‐-‐-‐-‐-‐-‐-‐+-‐-‐-‐-‐-‐-‐-‐+ | c506230f-‐eb08-‐4d4e-‐82e2-‐7a88eb779bda | super | +-‐-‐-‐-‐-‐-‐-‐-‐-‐-‐-‐-‐-‐-‐-‐-‐-‐-‐-‐-‐-‐-‐-‐-‐-‐-‐-‐-‐-‐-‐-‐-‐-‐-‐-‐-‐-‐-‐+-‐-‐-‐-‐-‐-‐-‐+ griff@stack-‐1: cinder type create super-‐dooper
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| 918cf343-‐1f3d-‐4508-‐bb69-‐cd0e668ae297 | super-‐dooper |
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griff@stack-‐1: cinder type-‐key super set volume_backend_name=LVM_iSCSI
griff@stack-‐1: cinder type-‐key super-‐dooper set volume_backend_name=SolidFire \ qos:minIOPS=400 qos:maxIOPS=1000 qos:burstIOPS=2000
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End users perspective griff@stack-‐1: cinder type-‐list
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| 918cf343-‐1f3d-‐4508-‐bb69-‐cd0e668ae297 | super-‐dooper |
| c506230f-‐eb08-‐4d4e-‐82e2-‐7a88eb779bda | super |
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griff@stack-‐1: cinder create -‐-‐volume-‐type super-‐dooper ……
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Web UI’s are neat, but automation rules! jdg@bdr76 ~ $ cinder create -‐-‐volume-‐type f76f2fbf-‐f5cf-‐474f-‐9863-‐31f170a29b74 100 or in code:
>>> from cinderclient.v2 import client >>> cc = client.Client(USER, PASS, TENANT, AUTH_URL, service_type="volume") >>> cc.volumes.create(100, volume_type=f76f2fbf-‐f5cf-‐474f-‐9863-‐31f170a29b74) [...]
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Or Heat Templates! resources: server: type: OS::Nova::Server properties: name: { get_param: "OS::stack_name" } … storage_volume: type: OS::Cinder::Volume properties: name: { get_param: "OS::stack_name" } size: { get_param: vol_size } volume_type: { get_param: vol_type } volume_attachment: type: OS::Cinder::VolumeAttachment properties: volume_id: { get_resource: storage_volume } instance_uuid: { get_resource: server }
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● https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/How_To_Contribute
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