Manage external storage

Enterprise Edition Functionality
This feature is available in Abiquo Enterprise Edition
Cloud Admin Enterprise Admin User

The Storage tab provides functionallity to manage the external storage infrastructure. Abiquo uses iSCSI to access the different storage technologies supported in the platform. The default view of this tab, shows all volumes available to the selected datacenter.

Adding Storage Manager to the remote services

The Abiquo platform uses the Storage Manager remote service as a front-end to the different storage technologies, to encapsulate their APIs and provide a standard way to access all of them. This remote service is not added by default when creating a new Datacenter, and it must be added before managing the external storage infrastructure.

To add the Remote Service, just go to the Datacenter edition, and in the Remote Services tab, click the button and add the Storage Manager remote Service.

Pool Management

Once the Storage Manager remote service has been created, the following step is to create a Storage Pool. A Storage Pool configures the access to the target storage technology and allows to configure the Management and the Service networks that the Cloud Nodes will use to access external storage.

Storage pool limitation
Currently, only one storage technology by datacenter is supported, so only one pool can be created.

The Storage Pool management can be done using the buttons:

Button Action
Create a new Storage Pool
Remove an existing Storage Pool
Edit the selected Storage Pool

To create the pool, the following popup appears:
Field Value
Name The name of the Storage Pool
Virtual Storage System The Storage System that will manage the pool (the Storage Manager remote service)
Storage technology The target Storage technology
Management IP The IP used by the Abiquo platform to connect to the Storage technology
Management Port The port used by the Abiquo platform to connect to the Storage technology
Host IP The IP used by the Cloud nodes to connect to the Storage technology
Host Port The port used by the Cloud nodes to connect to the Storage technology
NetApp case
In NetApp case, management IP and storage IP are not equals. Management IP points to the NetApp storage connector (port 8280), and storage IP points to the NetApp storage server (port 3260).

The volume list

This list allows System Administrator to know all the volumes that are created on the pool with detailed information such as the IQN that will be used to identify the volume in the target storage technology, the volume size, etc.

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