SolidFire

The SolidFire Cluster is a high performance all SSD iSCSI storage device that provides massive scale out capability and extreme fault tolerance. A key feature of the SolidFire cluster is the ability to set and modify during operation specific QoS levels on a volume for volume basis. The SolidFire cluster offers this along with de-duplication, compression, and an architecture that takes full advantage of SSDs.

To configure the use of a SolidFire cluster with Block Storage, modify your cinder.conf file as follows:

volume_driver=cinder.volume.drivers.solidfire.SolidFire
san_ip=172.17.1.182         # the address of your MVIP
san_login=sfadmin           # your cluster admin login
san_password=sfpassword     # your cluster admin password
sf_account_prefix=''        # prefix for tenant account creation on solidfire cluster (see warning below)

Warning

The SolidFire driver creates a unique account prefixed with $cinder-volume-service-hostname-$tenant-id on the SolidFire cluster for each tenant that accesses the cluster through the Volume API. Unfortunately, this account formation results in issues for High Availability (HA) installations and installations where the cinder-volume service can move to a new node. HA installations can return an Account Not Found error because the call to the SolidFire cluster is not always going to be sent from the same node. In installations where the cinder-volume service moves to a new node, the same issue can occur when you perform operations on existing volumes, such as clone, extend, delete, and so on.

	Tip
	Set the sf_account_prefix option to an empty string ('') in the cinder.conf file. This setting results in unique accounts being created on the SolidFire cluster, but the accounts are prefixed with the tenant-id or any unique identifier that you choose and are independent of the host where the cinder-volume service resides.