HPE 3PAR Storage Driver

Description

The 3PAR datastore driver enables OpenNebula to use a HPE 3PAR storage system for storing disk images.

Development

To contribute bug patches or new features, you can use the Github Pull Request model. It is assumed that code and documentation are contributed under the Apache License 2.0.

More info:

• Issues Tracking: Github issues (https://github.com/OpenNebula/addon-3par/issues)

Authors

• Leader: Kristian Feldsam (feldsam@feldhost.net)

Support

FeldHost™ offers design, implementation, operation and management of a cloud solution based on OpenNebula.

Compatibility

This add-on is developed and tested with:

• OpenNebula 6.2 and 3PAR OS 3.3.1.648 (MU5)+P125,P126,P132,P135,P140,P146,P150,P151,P155,P156,P164,P170,P173
• OpenNebula 5.10 and 3PAR OS 3.3.1.648 (MU5)+P125,P126,P132,P135,P140,P146,P150,P151
• OpenNebula 5.8 and 3PAR OS 3.3.1.460 (MU3)+P50,P58,P61,P77,P78,P81
• OpenNebula 5.8 and 3PAR OS 3.3.1.410 (MU2)+P32,P34,P36,P37,P39,P40,P41,P42,P45,P48
• OpenNebula 5.6 and 3PAR OS 3.2.2.612 (MU4)+P51,P56,P59,P94,P98,P102,P106,P113,P118,P127

Requirements

OpenNebula Front-end

• Working OpenNebula CLI interface with oneadmin account authorized to OpenNebula's core with UID=0
• Password-less SSH access from the front-end oneadmin user to the node instances.
• 3PAR python package python-3parclient installed, WSAPI username, password and access to the 3PAR API network
• libvirt-client package installed

yum install python-setuptools libvirt-client
easy_install pip
pip install python-3parclient

OpenNebula Node (or Bridge Node)

• There is only one task (datastore/3par/cp), which use BRIDGE_LIST, so there is no need to have separate Bridge Node
• Each OpenNebula Node (or Bridge Node) need to have relevant Host created on 3PAR
• Host name on 3PAR and OpenNebula Node name (or Bridge Node name) must be same. Name is used for (un)exporting volumes
• sg3_utils package installed
• /etc/multipath.conf need to have set user_friendly_names no, because we use WWNs instead of mpathx aliasses
• /etc/sudoers.d/opennebula - add ONE_3PAR cmd alias
• /etc/sudoers.d/opennebula-node-kvm - add ONE_3PAR alias to the list

nano /etc/sudoers.d/opennebula
...
Cmnd_Alias ONE_3PAR = /sbin/multipath, /usr/sbin/multipathd, /sbin/dmsetup, /usr/sbin/blockdev, /usr/bin/tee /sys/block/*/device/delete, /usr/bin/rescan-scsi-bus.sh, /sbin/mkswap, /usr/sbin/mkfs
...

nano /etc/sudoers.d/opennebula-node-kmv
...
oneadmin ALL=(ALL) NOPASSWD: ONE_MISC, ..., ONE_3PAR, ...
...

yum install sg3_utils

Features

Support standard OpenNebula datastore operations:

• datastore configuration via CLI
• all Datastore MAD(DATASTORE_MAD) and Transfer Manager MAD(TM_MAD) functionality
• SYSTEM datastore
• TRIM/discard in the VM when virtio-scsi driver is in use (require DEV_PREFIX=sd and DISCARD=unmap)
• disk images can be full provisioned, thin provisioned, thin deduplicated, thin compressed or thin deduplicated and compressed RAW block devices
• support different 3PAR CPGs as separate datastore
• support for 3PAR Priority Optimization Policy (QoS)
• live VM snapshots
• live VM migrations
• volatile disks support (need patched KVM driver attach_disk script)
• support multiple storage systems
• support Remote Copy with Peer Persistence
• support Save As between storage systems
• support migrations of VMs between storage systems
• ds/clone operation support cloning image between storage systems
• Sunstone integration - available via our enterprise repository

Limitations

1. Tested only with KVM hypervisor
2. When SYSTEM datastore is in use the reported free/used/total space is the space on 3PAR CPG. (On the host filesystem there are mostly symlinks and small files that do not require much disk space)
3. Tested/confirmed working on CentOS 7 and Oracle Linux 7 (Frontend), and Oracle Linux 7, Oracle Linux 8, CentOS 7, CentOS 8, Fedora 29+ (Nodes).

ToDo

1. QOS Priority per VM
2. Configuration of API auth in datastore template

Installation

The installation instructions are for OpenNebula 5.6+.

Get the addon from github

cd ~
git clone https://github.com/OpenNebula/addon-3par.git

Automated installation

The automated installation is best suitable for new deployments.

• Run the install script as 'root' user and check for any reported errors or warnings

bash ~/addon-3par/install.sh

Manual installation

The following commands are related to latest OpenNebula version.

oned related pieces

• Copy 3PAR's DATASTORE_MAD driver files

cp -a ~/addon-3par/datastore/3par /var/lib/one/remotes/datastore/

# copy config
cp -a ~/addon-3par/etc/datastore/3par /var/lib/one/remotes/etc/datastore/

# fix ownership
chown -R oneadmin.oneadmin /var/lib/one/remotes/datastore/3par /var/lib/one/remotes/etc/datastore/3par

• Copy 3PAR's TM_MAD driver files

cp -a ~/addon-3par/tm/3par /var/lib/one/remotes/tm/

# fix ownership
chown -R oneadmin.oneadmin /var/lib/one/remotes/tm/3par

Addon configuration

The global configuration of one-addon-3par is in /var/lib/one/remotes/etc/datastore/3par/3par.conf file.

• Edit /etc/one/oned.conf and add 3par to the TM_MAD arguments

TM_MAD = [
    executable = "one_tm",
    arguments = "-t 15 -d dummy,lvm,shared,fs_lvm,qcow2,ssh,vmfs,ceph,dev,3par"
]

• Edit /etc/one/oned.conf and add 3par to the DATASTORE_MAD arguments

DATASTORE_MAD = [
    executable = "one_datastore",
    arguments  = "-t 15 -d dummy,fs,vmfs,lvm,ceph,dev,3par  -s shared,ssh,ceph,fs_lvm,qcow2,3par"
]

• Edit /etc/one/oned.conf and append TM_MAD_CONF definition for 3par

TM_MAD_CONF = [
  NAME = "3par", LN_TARGET = "NONE", CLONE_TARGET = "SELF", SHARED = "yes", DRIVER = "raw", ALLOW_ORPHANS="yes"
]

• Edit /etc/one/oned.conf and append DS_MAD_CONF definition for 3par

DS_MAD_CONF = [
    NAME = "3par",
    REQUIRED_ATTRS = "CPG,BRIDGE_LIST",
    PERSISTENT_ONLY = "NO",
    MARKETPLACE_ACTIONS = ""
]

• Edit /etc/one/oned.conf and update VM_MAD arguments for 3par

VM_MAD = [
      ARGUMENTS = "-t 15 -r 0 kvm -l snapshotcreate=snapshot_create-3par,snapshotdelete=snapshot_delete-3par,snapshotrevert=snapshot_revert-3par",
      ...

• Enable live disk snapshots support for 3PAR by adding kvm-3par to LIVE_DISK_SNAPSHOTS variable in /etc/one/vmm_exec/vmm_execrc

LIVE_DISK_SNAPSHOTS="kvm-qcow2 kvm-ceph kvm-3par"

Post-install

• Restart opennebula service

systemtl restart opennebula

• As oneadmin user (re)sync the remote scripts

su - oneadmin -c 'onehost sync --force'

Live snapshots info

• Live snapshots are tested only by using TCP communication with libvirtd on OpenNebula Nodes. Follow this docs
• In /var/lib/one/remotes/etc/vmm/kvm/kvmrc also set export QEMU_PROTOCOL=qemu+tcp
• Probably works out of the box, because by default QEMU_PROTOCOL=qemu+ssh, so it should tries to connect like this virsh -c qemu+ssh://node/ ..., but not tested

Volatile disks support info

To make volatile disks working, we need to patch vmm driver action attach_disk. Patched file is available in vmm/kvm directory and have to be installed to /var/lib/one/remotes/vmm/kvm/.

Configuring the System Datastore

This addon enables full support of transfer manager (TM_MAD) backend of type 3par for the system datastore.
The system datastore will hold only the symbolic links to the 3PAR block devices and context isos, so it will not take much space. See more details on the Open Cloud Storage Setup.

Configuring the Datastore

Some configuration attributes must be set to enable a datastore as 3PAR enabled one:

• DS_MAD: [mandatory] The DS driver for the datastore. String, use value 3par
• TM_MAD: [mandatory] Transfer driver for the datastore. String, use value 3par
• DISK_TYPE: [mandatory for IMAGE datastores] Type for the VM disks using images from this datastore. String, use value block
• API_ENDPOINT: 3PAR WSAPI Endpoint. String
• IP: 3PAR IP address for SSH authentication options for the SSH based calls. String
• CPG: [mandatory] Name of Common Provisioning Group created on 3PAR. String
• THIN: Use thin volumes tpvv or no. By default enabled. YES|NO
• DEDUP: Use deduplicated thin volumes tdvv or no. By default disabled. YES|NO
• COMPRESSION: Use compressed thin volumes or no. By default disabled. YES|NO
• NAMING_TYPE: Part of volume name defining environment. By default dev. String (1)
• BRIDGE_LIST: [mandatory for IMAGE datastores] Nodes to use for image datastore operations. String (2)
• REMOTE_COPY: Enable Remote Copy. YES|NO
• SEC_API_ENDPOINT: [mandatory when Remote Copy] Secondary 3PAR WSAPI Endpoint. String
• SEC_IP: [mandatory when Remote Copy] Secondary 3PAR IP address. String
• SEC_CPG: [mandatory when Remote Copy] Name of Common Provisioning Group on Secondary 3PAR. String
• QOS_ENABLE: Enable QoS. YES|NO (3)
• QOS_PRIORITY: QoS Priority. HIGH|NORMAL|LOW (4)
• QOS_MAX_IOPS: QoS Max IOPS. Int (5)
• QOS_MIN_IOPS: QoS Min IOPS. Int (6)
• QOS_MAX_BW: QoS Man bandwidth in kB/s. Int (7)
• QOS_MIN_BW: QoS Min bandwidth in kB/s. Int (8)
• QOS_LATENCY: QoS Latency goal in ms. Int (9)

1. Volume names are created according to best practices naming conventions. <TYPE> part - can be prd for production servers, dev for development servers, tst for test servers, etc. Volume name will be <TYPE>.one.<IMAGE_ID>.vv for ex. dev.one.1.vv or tst.one.3.vv

2. Quoted, space separated list of server hostnames which are Hosts on the 3PAR System.

3. QoS Rules - Applied per VM, so if VM have multiple disks, them QoS policy applies to all VM disks

   • minimum goals and maximum limits are shared. Persistent disks use QOS_* attributes from IMAGE datastore. Non-Persistent disks use QOS_* attributes from target SYSTEM datastore.

4. QoS Priority - Determines the sequence for throttling policies to meet latency goals. High priority should be used for critical applications, lower priority should be used for less critical applications. The priority will be ignored if the system does not have policies with a latency goal and minimum goal.

5. The maximum IOPS permitted for the virtual volumes associated with the policy. The IOPS maximum limit must be between 0 and 2 147 483 647 IO/s.

6. If IOPS fall below this minimum goal, then IOPS will not be throttled (reduced) for the virtual volumes associated with the policy. If a minimum goal is set for IOPS, then a maximum limit must also be set for IOPS. The minimum goal will be ignored if the system does not have policies with a latency goal set. The IOPS minimum goal must be between 0 and 2 147 483 647 IO/s. Zero means disabled.

7. The maximum bandwidth permitted for the virtual volumes associated with the policy. The maximum limit does not have dependencies on the other optimization settings. The bandwidth maximum limit must be between 0 and 9 007 199 254 740 991 KB/s.

8. If bandwidth falls below this minimum goal, then bandwidth will not be throttled (reduced) for the virtual volumes associated with the policy. If a minimum goal is set for bandwidth, then a maximum limit must also be set for bandwidth. The minimum goal will be ignored if the system does not have policies with a latency goal set. The bandwidth minimum goal must be between 0 and 9 007 199 254 740 991 KB/s. Zero means disabled.

9. Service time that the system will attempt to achieve for the virtual volumes associated with the policy. A latency goal requires the system to have other policies with a minimum goal specified so that the latency goal algorithm knows which policies to throttle. The sequence in which these will be throttled is set by priority (low priority is throttled first). The latency goal must be between 0,50 and 10 000,00 ms. Zero means disabled.

The following example illustrates the creation of a 3PAR datastore. The datastore will use hosts tst.lin.fedora1.host, tst.lin.fedora2.host and tst.lin.fedora3.host for importing and creating images.

Image datastore through onedatastore

# create datastore configuration file
$ cat >/tmp/imageds.tmpl <<EOF
NAME = "3PAR IMAGE"
DS_MAD = "3par"
TM_MAD = "3par"
TYPE = "IMAGE_DS"
DISK_TYPE = "block"
CPG = "SSD_r6"
NAMING_TYPE = "tst"
BRIDGE_LIST = "tst.lin.fedora1.host tst.lin.fedora2.host tst.lin.fedora3.host"
QOS_ENABLE = "YES"
EOF

# Create datastore
$ onedatastore create /tmp/imageds.tmpl

# Verify datastore is created
$ onedatastore list

  ID NAME                SIZE AVAIL CLUSTER      IMAGES TYPE DS       TM
   0 system             98.3G 93%   -                 0 sys  -        ssh
   1 default            98.3G 93%   -                 0 img  fs       ssh
   2 files              98.3G 93%   -                 0 fil  fs       ssh
 100 3PAR IMAGE         4.5T  99%   -                 0 img  3par     3par

System datastore through onedatastore

# create datastore configuration file
$ cat >/tmp/ds.conf <<EOF
NAME = "3PAR SYSTEM"
TM_MAD = "3par"
TYPE = "SYSTEM_DS"
CPG = "SSD_r6"
NAMING_TYPE = "tst"
QOS_ENABLE = "YES"
EOF

# Create datastore
$ onedatastore create /tmp/ds.conf

# Verify datastore is created
$ onedatastore list

  ID NAME                SIZE AVAIL CLUSTER      IMAGES TYPE DS       TM
   0 system             98.3G 93%   -                 0 sys  -        shared
   1 default            98.3G 93%   -                 0 img  fs       shared
   2 files              98.3G 93%   -                 0 fil  fs       ssh
 100 3PAR IMAGE         4.5T  99%   -                 0 img  3par     3par
 101 3PAR SYSTEM        4.5T  99%   -                 0 sys  -        3par

3PAR best practices guide incl. naming conventions

Please follow the best practices guide.