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The share node can support two modes, with and without the handling of
share servers. The mode depends on driver support.
Option 1
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Deploying the service without driver support for share management.
In this mode, the service does not do anything related to networking. The
operator must ensure network connectivity between instances and the NFS
server. This tutorial demonstrates setting up the LVM driver to support this
driver mode. It requires LVM and NFS packages as well as an additional disk
for the ``manila-share`` LVM volume group. This driver
mode may be referred to as ``driver_handles_share_servers = False`` mode, or
simply ``DHSS=False`` mode.
Option 2
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Deploying the service with driver support for share management. In
this mode, the service runs with a back end driver that creates and manages
share servers. This tutorial demonstrates setting up the Generic driver.
This driver requires Compute (nova), Networking (neutron) and Block
storage (cinder) services for managing share servers. The information used for
creating share servers is configured with the help of share networks. This
option uses the generic driver with the handling of share servers capacity
and requires attaching the ``selfservice`` network to a router. This driver
mode may be referred to as ``driver_handles_share_servers = True`` mode, or
simply ``DHSS=True`` mode.
.. warning::
When running the generic driver in ``DHSS=True`` driver mode, the share
service should be run on the same node as the networking service.
However, such a service may not be able to run the LVM driver that runs
in ``DHSS=False`` driver mode effectively, due to a bug in some
distributions of Linux. For more information, see LVM Driver section in the
`Configuration Reference Guide
<http://docs.openstack.org/mitaka/config-reference/shared-file-systems.html>`_.