CSTACKEX-201: Documentation for netapp ontap plugin#2
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| - PROTOCOL: storage protocol to use. Must be one of ``NFS3`` or ``ISCSI``. | ||
| - MGMT_LIF_IP: IP address of the ONTAP cluster management LIF. | ||
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| Limitations: |
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We can rephrase some of them as "Future enhacement" instead of "Limitations".
| The url parameter contains the ONTAP storage pool connection details, specified | ||
| as semicolon-separated key=value pairs in the following format:: | ||
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| username=<USERNAME>;password=<PASSWORD>;svmName=<SVM_NAME>;protocol=<PROTOCOL>;managementLIF=<MGMT_LIF_IP> |
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This is not valid in our latest code. We are not using url now.
| - name=[name for primary storage] | ||
| - hypervisor=KVM | ||
| - provider=ONTAP | ||
| - url=[storage pool url] |
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Connect with Surya on this as many things moved from url to details query param.
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| .. note:: | ||
| NFS is not the only option for primary or secondary storage. For example, | ||
| you may use Ceph RBD, PowerFlex, GlusterFS, iSCSI, Fiberchannel and others. The choice of storage | ||
| you may use Ceph RBD, PowerFlex, GlusterFS, iSCSI, Fiberchannel, NetApp ONTAP and others. The choice of storage |
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this needs to be revalidated
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| - ONTAP Management LIF accessible from the CloudStack management server on port 443 | ||
| (HTTPS). | ||
| - A Data LIF of IPv4 type on the SVM, reachable from all KVM hypervisor hosts. | ||
| - Aggregates assigned to the SVM with sufficient capacity. |
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can say like " Ensure Storage VM (SVM) is mapped to aggrs with sufficient capacity"
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| - NetApp Unified ONTAP 9.15.1 or higher. | ||
| - A Storage Virtual Machine (SVM) in ONTAP storage with NFS 3.0 or iSCSI protocol enabled. | ||
| - Only IPv4 Data LIF is supported on the SVM, and it must be reachable from |
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Only an IPv4-type Data LIF is supported. The Data LIF must be reachable from all KVM hypervisor hosts in CloudStack.
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