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 # devstack-plugin-vmax
+This plugin enables the VMAX backend for cinder. For each backend, it creates the required xml file, populating said file along with cinder.conf with the appropriate values
+
+# Enabling in devstack
+* Add this repo as an external repository to localrc::
+  enable_plugin vmax https://github.com/okpoyu/devstack-plugin-vmax
+* run ./stack.sh