NexentaStor5 VSA for OpenStack

Instruction to deploy a NexentaStor5 VSA from an existing image

• Download image template(s)
• Create a new boot image from the downloaded image file

stack$ openstack image create --public --disk-format qcow2 --min-disk 32 --file NexentaStor-5.1.2-FP1.qcow2 NexentaStor-5.1.2-FP1
stack$ openstack image list
+--------------------------------------+--------------------------+--------+
| ID                                   | Name                     | Status |
+--------------------------------------+--------------------------+--------+
| 47b46d65-4a2a-4c44-830b-daf73f39f43b | NexentaStor-5.1.2-FP1    | active |
| e82ebf28-ba5d-435a-b2b9-8bd4323d986d | cirros-0.4.0-x86_64-disk | active |
+--------------------------------------+--------------------------+--------+

• Create a new bootable volume from the existing image. Please note: volume size must be >= 32GB (due to the existing image properties)

stack$ openstack volume create --size 32 --image NexentaStor-5.1.2-FP1 Boot-Volume
stack$ openstack volume list
+--------------------------------------+-------------+-----------+------+-------------+
| ID                                   | Name        | Status    | Size | Attached to |
+--------------------------------------+-------------+-----------+------+-------------+
| 399ab5d9-d273-4508-a0be-9f3c2593af5a | Boot-Volume | available |   32 |             |
+--------------------------------------+-------------+-----------+------+-------------+

• Create a new data volume

stack$ openstack volume create --size 128 Data-Volume
stack$ openstack volume list
+--------------------------------------+-------------+-----------+------+-------------+
| ID                                   | Name        | Status    | Size | Attached to |
+--------------------------------------+-------------+-----------+------+-------------+
| d9f52fba-59a7-4b93-b434-e21388a8c67b | Data-Volume | available |  128 |             |
| 399ab5d9-d273-4508-a0be-9f3c2593af5a | Boot-Volume | available |   32 |             |
+--------------------------------------+-------------+-----------+------+-------------+

• Create a new Openstack flavor. Please note: a minimum of 2 vCPU and 8GB RAM is required, 4 vCPU and 16GB is recommended

stack$ openstack flavor create --ram 16384 --vcpus 4 NexentaStor5
stack$ openstack flavor list   
+-----+--------------+-------+------+-----------+-------+-----------+
| ID  | Name         |   RAM | Disk | Ephemeral | VCPUs | Is Public |
+-----+--------------+-------+------+-----------+-------+-----------+
| ee5 | NexentaStor5 | 16384 |    0 |         0 |     4 | True      |
+-----+--------------+-------+------+-----------+-------+-----------+

• Boot a new NexentaStor5 instance from the existing boot volume and attach the data volume

stack$ openstack server create --flavor NexentaStor5 --volume Boot-Volume --block-device-mapping vdb=Data-Volume NexentaStor-5.1.2-FP1
stack$ openstack server list
+--------------------------------------+-----------------------+--------+---------------------+-------+--------------+
| ID                                   | Name                  | Status | Networks            | Image | Flavor       |
+--------------------------------------+-----------------------+--------+---------------------+-------+--------------+
| 92012dfe-f3d4-46ea-a838-9901a1098830 | NexentaStor-5.1.2-FP1 | ACTIVE | public=172.24.4.149 |       | NexentaStor5 |
+--------------------------------------+-----------------------+--------+---------------------+-------+--------------+

• Open ssh connection to the NexentaStor5 VSA instance. Note: default user name is admin, default password is Nexenta@1

stack$ openstack server ssh --login admin NexentaStor-5.1.2-FP1

• Activate a license

CLI@nexenta> license activate XXX-XXX-XXX-XXX-XXX

• Create a new data pool using a data volume

CLI@nexenta> disk list
 #  NAME    LABEL  SIZE      MEDIATYPE  SED  STATE   WHERE          USAGE
 0  c4t0d0  -      34.36GB   ssd        no   ONLINE  LEGACY_NVME:0  rpool (active)
 1  c1t0d0  -      137.44GB  ssd        no   ONLINE  LEGACY_NVME:1  -
CLI@nexenta> pool create tank c1t0d0

• Create and share a new NFS filesystem

CLI@nexenta> filesystem create -p -o nbmand=off tank/data
CLI@nexenta> nfs share -o anon=root tank/data