Nexenta Drivers for OpenStack Cinder

Supported OpenStack Releases

  • NexentaStor 4.x - Icehouse+
  • NexentaStor 5.x - Icehouse+

Feature List

FeatureNexentaStor 4.xNexentaStor 5.x
Create thin-provisioned volume✔✔
Create thick-provisioned volume✔✔
Create raw volume✔✔
Create qcow, qcow2, vdi, vhdx, vmdk and vpc volume—✔ (NFS only)
Delete volume✔✔
Attach volume✔✔
Detach volume✔✔
Extend detached volume✔✔
Extend attached volume✔ (iSCSI only)✔ (iSCSI only)
Create snapshot✔✔
Delete snapshot✔✔
Revert to snapshot✔ (Pike and later)✔ (Pike and later)
Create volume from snapshot✔✔
Create volume from image✔✔
Clone volume✔✔
Create image from volume✔✔
Volume stats✔✔
Migrate volume✔✔
Storage assisted volume migration✔✔
Throttle for storage assisted volume migration✔✔
Retype volume—✔
Volume replication——
Consistency groups—✔
Consistency groups capability to generic groups—✔
iSCSI LUN Mapping✔✔
QoS (rate limit)—✔
Volume multi-attach✔✔
Volume manage, unmanage and manageable-list—✔
Snapshot manage, unmanage and manageable-list—✔
Volume type extra specs—✔
Image caching—✔
Vendor capabilities support—✔
TRIM/Discard support✔ (iSCSI only)✔ (iSCSI only)