The Dell EqualLogic volume driver interacts with configured EqualLogic arrays and supports various operations, such as volume creation and deletion, volume attachment and detachment, snapshot creation and deletion, and clone creation.
To configure and use a Dell EqualLogic array with Block
Storage, modify your cinder.conf as
follows.
Set the volume_driver option to the Dell
EqualLogic volume driver:
volume_driver=cinder.volume.drivers.eqlx.DellEQLSanISCSIDriver
Set the san_ip option to the IP address to
reach the EqualLogic Group through SSH:
san_ip=10.10.72.53
Set the san_login option to the user name
to login to the Group manager:
san_login=grpadmin
Set the san_password option to the password
to login the Group manager with:
san_password=password
Optionally set the san_thin_provision
option to false to disable creation of thin-provisioned
volumes:
san_thin_provision=false
The following table describes additional options that the driver supports:
| Configuration option=Default value | Description |
| eqlx_chap_login=admin | (StrOpt) Existing CHAP account name |
| eqlx_chap_password=password | (StrOpt) Password for specified CHAP account name |
| eqlx_cli_max_retries=5 | (IntOpt) Maximum retry count for reconnection |
| eqlx_cli_timeout=30 | (IntOpt) Timeout for the Group Manager cli command execution |
| eqlx_group_name=group-0 | (StrOpt) Group name to use for creating volumes |
| eqlx_pool=default | (StrOpt) Pool in which volumes will be created |
| eqlx_use_chap=False | (BoolOpt) Use CHAP authentificaion for targets? |
