Cinder block storage Driver for ME4 Series

Hello DMONTAGNA,

What is the OS that is running on your host as you didn’t state it in your post?  Here is a link to the support matrix for your ME4024, & in most cases as long the OS is listed on the matrix then the driver should be available by the OS.

Please let us know if you have any other questions.

Hi,

The OS is Centos7 running OpenStack Pike Release, I need to provide block storage inside OpenStack using the cinder block storage driver to integrate directly with the ME4024 iscsi. 

So, creating, removing, attaching and extending volumes directly via ME4024 CLI interface, the same way we do that today using the SC Series or PS Series.

This is the driver we use today for an off our SC storages:

https://docs.openstack.org/cinder/stein/configuration/block-storage/drivers/dell-storagecenter-driver.html

But I can't find a driver specific for ME4 Series...

Hi,

You can opt for another option if you want, using open-iscsi from the Host OS to login into the target iscsi SAN, and then those block devices exposed to the OS can be used by LVM2 which can be managed by OpenStack's cinder.

I assume you already looked into https://docs.openstack.org/cinder/stein/reference/support-matrix.html

The very latest doc is this: https://docs.openstack.org/cinder/latest/reference/support-matrix.html

However you are running Pike, therefore you are behind one release in terms of improvements, drivers, etc.