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What physical ports on unity are needed to use NFS with Unity CSI driver ?
I would like to setup the CSI driver to use NFS volumes on NAS shares on the Unity.
Currently I don't have iSCSI ports on our array. Is this a requirement? From below it seems to be that to use NFS iSCSI ports are a requirement ?
Requirements
- Install Kubernetes or OpenShift
- Configure Docker service
- Install Helm v3
- To use FC protocol, host must be zoned with Unity array
- To use iSCSI and NFS protocol, iSCSI initiator and NFS utility packages need to be installed
Nit_csi
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March 31st, 2021 01:00
Hi suprtbowl100d,
I see some confusion here ..
You may need physical ports if FC/iSCSI protocol is used. To use NFS protocol, only nasServer and storage pool should be configured any other ports/iSCSI ports are not required.
Also, csi driver uses nasServer and not responsible for creating it, though it is a pre-req. csi-driver is like any other tool, so if you can export NFS share with others then its ok you can use it.
bmcfeeters
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March 30th, 2021 11:00
Hi Suprtbowl100d,
Sorry for the confusion here...
For iSCSI support all Kubernetes nodes must have the iscsi-initiator-utils package for CentOS/RHEL or open-iscsi package for Ubuntu installed, and the iscsid service must be enabled and running. To do this, run the systemctl enable --now iscsid command.
For NFS support all Kubernetes nodes must have the nfs-utils package installed to be able to mount/unmount NSF exports from the Unity array.
Thanks
Bryan
suprtbowl100d
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March 30th, 2021 23:00
ok thanks for the reply Bryan.
I am specifically asking about the physical ports on the unity and what ports I need to use.
I just want to use NFS for the moment... Does that mean I do not need iSCSI ports on the Unity ?
I can use Ethernet ports which currently I have setup for connectivity to our NAS servers for exporting NFS shares?
suprtbowl100d
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April 1st, 2021 02:00
Great thank you for the reply