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Hewlett Packard Enterprise Storage

This HPE Horizon plug-in is provided to help administrators better manage their OpenStack Cinder environment and HPE 3PAR StoreServ backend storage arrays.

The main functions of this plug-in are:
The HPE Horzion plug-in consists of multiple tabs, each described in detail below:

Configuration

Use this panel to configure all of the features of the HPE Storage Horizon plug-in tool. This includes:

Diagnostic Tests

Use this panel to perform diagnostic tests on registered Cinder and Nova nodes.
For Cinder nodes, the test consists of validating HPE related "cinder.conf" file settings, and verifying that the HPE 3PAR driver and other required software utilies are installed.
For Nova nodes, the test checks for the installation of required software utilities.

Storage Arrays

Use this panel to view details on all discovered HPE storage arrays. Details include:

Volume Paths

Use this panel to perform volume path queries on all registered Nova nodes.
For each registered Nova node, the query will return all active volume paths along with any associated volume names and ids. Results of the queries will be saved and can be compared against previous queries using the panels "Diff" feature. This can be very useful, for example, in determining if volume migration was completed successfully.

Where to begin...

To verify your OpenStack Cinder and Nova environment and discover HPE 3PAR backend storage arrays:

  1. Go to the "Configuration" tab and register all your Cinder and Nova nodes.
  2. Click the "Validate SSH Credentials" button to validate the registration information you entered is correct.
  3. Go to the "Diagnostic Tests" tab and run diagnostic tests on all of your registered Cinder and Nova nodes. An added feature of running diagnostic tests on Cinder nodes is the discovery of backend storage arrays.
  4. Go to the "Storage Arrays" tab to see what HPE 3PAR StoreServ arrays were discovered by the running of the Cinder diagnostic tests.

To add direct links from OpenStack volumes to associated HPE 3PAR SSMC detailed views:

  1. Go to the "Configuration" tab and add links between Cinder backends and instances of HPE 3PAR SSMC.
  2. Go to the Admin -> Volumes panel to view additional actions associated with all volumes that were assigned to the Cinder backend specified in the previous step.
  3. Select one of the new actions to launch directly to the volumes associated views in HPE 3PAR SSMC.