fuel-plugin-scaleio-cinder/doc/content/user-guide.rst

User Guide

1. Install ScaleIO-Cinder plugin using the Installation Guide.

2. Create environment with enabled plugin in fuel ui, lunch the fuel site and check setting section to make sure the Scaleio-Cinder section exists

3. Add 3 nodes with Controller role and 1 node with Compute and another role:

   

4. Picture of the External ScaleIO Cluster Running:

   

5. Retrive the external ScaleIO Cluster information. For our example these are the configuration settings:

   

6. Use the ScaleIO Cluster information to update the ScaleIO Plugin information:

   

7. Apply network settings

8. Use the networking settings that are appropriate for your environment. For our example we used the default settings provided by Fuel:

   

9. Run network verification check:

   

10. Deploy the cluster:

    

11. Once the deployment finished successfully, open OpenStack Dashboard (Horizon):

    

12. Check Storage tab under system information and make sure ScaleIO

    service is up and running:

    

ScaleIO Cinder plugin OpenStack operations

Once the OpenStack Cluster is setup, we can setup ScaleIO Volumes. This is an example in how to attach a Volume to a running VM:

1. Login into the OpenStack Cluster:

   

2. Review the Block storage services by navigating: Admin -> System -> System Information secction. You should see the ScaleIO Cinder Volume.

   

3. Review the System Volumes by navigating to: Admin -> System -> Volumes. You should see the ScaleIO Volume Type:

   

4. Create a new OpenStack Volume:

   

5. View the newly created Volume:

   

6. In the ScaleIO Control Panel, you will see that no Volumes have been mapped yet:

   

7. Once the Volume is attached to a VM, the ScaleIO UI will reflect the mapping: