The EMC manila driver framework (EMCShareDriver) utilizes EMC storage products to provide shared filesystems to OpenStack. The EMC manila driver is a plugin based driver which is designed to use different plugins to manage different EMC storage products.
The Isilon manila driver is a plugin for the EMC manila driver framework which allows manila to interface with an Isilon backend to provide a shared filesystem. The EMC driver framework with the Isilon plugin is referred to as the “Isilon Driver” in this document.
This Isilon Driver interfaces with an Isilon cluster via the REST Isilon Platform API (PAPI) and the RESTful Access to Namespace API (RAN).
The following operations are supported on an Isilon cluster:
The following parameters need to be configured in the manila configuration file for the Isilon driver:
Restart of manila-share service is needed for the configuration changes to take effect.
The Isilon driver has the following restrictions:
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