Supported storage

Supported backends are separated by type of storage they provide:

Block devices

Currently both Block storage providers (cinderlib and cinderclient) support the same storage solutions, as they both use the same driver code. The biggest difference in terms of backend support is that the cinderclient provider relies on a Cinder service deployment, and that’s how all the drivers have been validated by the automated testing system. The cinderlib provider relies on the cinderlib library, which is still in the process of automating the testing, and for the time being has only been manually validated with a limited number of backends.

Unless stated otherwise, drivers have not been validated with cinderlib, so even though they should work, they may not.

List of supported drivers in alphabetical order:

  • Blockbridge EPS
  • Ceph/RBD [2]
  • Coho Data NFS [1]
  • Dell EMC PS
  • Dell EMC ScaleIO
  • Dell EMC Unity
  • Dell EMC VMAX FC
  • Dell EMC VMAX iSCSI [2]
  • Dell EMC VNX
  • Dell EMC XtremIO FC [2]
  • Dell EMC XtremIO iSCSI [2]
  • Dell Storage Center FC
  • Dell Storage Center iSCSI
  • DISCO
  • DotHill FC
  • DotHill iSCSI
  • DRBD
  • EMC CoprHD FC
  • EMC CoprHD iSCSI
  • EMC CoprHD ScaleIO
  • FalconStor FSS FC
  • FalconStor FSS iSCSI
  • Fujitsu ETERNUS DX S3 FC
  • Fujitsu ETERNUS DX S3 iSCSI
  • Generic NFS [1]
  • HGST
  • Hitachi HBSD iSCSI
  • Hitachi Hitachi NFS [1]
  • Hitachi VSP FC
  • Hitachi VSP iSCSI
  • HPE 3PAR FC
  • HPE 3PAR iSCSI
  • HPE LeftHand iSCSI
  • HPE MSA FC
  • HPE MSA iSCSI
  • HPE Nimble FC
  • HPE Nimble iSCSI
  • Huawei FusionStorage
  • Huawei OceanStor FC
  • Huawei OceanStor iSCSI
  • IBM DS8000
  • IBM FlashSystem A9000
  • IBM FlashSystem A9000R
  • IBM FlashSystem FC
  • IBM FlashSystem iSCSI
  • IBM GPFS
  • IBM GPFS NFS [1]
  • IBM GPFS Remote
  • IBM Spectrum Accelerate
  • IBM Storwize V7000 FC
  • IBM Storwize V7000 iSCSI
  • IBM SVC FC
  • IBM SVC iSCSI
  • IBM XIV
  • INFINIDAT InfiniBox
  • Infortrend Eonstor DS FC
  • Infortrend Eonstor DS iSCSI
  • Kaminario K2
  • Lenovo FC
  • Lenovo iSCSI
  • LVM [2]
  • NEC M-Series FC
  • NEC M-Series iSCSI
  • NetApp 7-mode FC
  • NetApp 7-mode iSCSI
  • NetApp 7-mode NFS [1]
  • NetApp C-mode FC
  • NetApp C-mode iSCSI
  • NetApp Data ONTAP NFS [1]
  • NetApp E-Series FC
  • NetApp E-Series iSCSI
  • NexentaEdge iSCSI
  • NexentaEdge NFS [1]
  • NexentaStor iSCSI
  • NexentaStor NFS [1]
  • Oracle ZFSSA iSCSI
  • Oracle ZFSSA NFS [1]
  • ProphetStor FC
  • ProphetStor iSCSI
  • Pure FC
  • Pure iSCSI
  • QNAP iSCSI
  • Quobyte USP
  • Reduxio
  • Sheepdog
  • SolidFire [2]
  • Synology iSCSI
  • Tegile FC
  • Tegile iSCSI
  • Tintri
  • Veritas Clustered NFS [1]
  • Veritas HyperScale
  • Violin V7000 FC
  • Violin V7000 iSCSI
  • Virtuozzo
  • VMware vCenter
  • Windows Smbfs
  • X-IO ISE FC
  • X-IO ISE iSCSI
  • XTE iSCSI
  • Zadara VPSA iSCSI/iSER

Shared filesystems

The Storage role has no Shared filesystem provider, so it doesn’t support any backend at the moment.

Object storage

The Storage role has no Object storage provider, so it doesn’t support any backend at the moment.

[1](1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10) NFS backends that use an image to provide block storage are not supported yet.
[2](1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6) This driver has been validated with cinderlib as stated in its documentation