Adding a new storage pool¶
An iSCSI storage pool provides users with persistent disk space. A drive from a drive array is allocated to a volume (also called LUN) from a storage pool. Storage pools are typically storage appliances.
The appliance must be supported by MetalSoft which means that the provisioning API is known to MetalSoft so that new volumes can be created, modified, deleted, IQN associated etc.
Adding a new storage pool¶
Before configuring the new storage, it needs to be installed and configured to be reachable on the management interface as well as the in-band interfaces. Also please check the Storage Prerequisites page for the specific storage appliance.
MetalSoft does not automatically configure the storage pool’s internal pool but rather just the volumes inside this pool. This allows the administrator to pre-configure RAID options, compression, de-duplication or any vendor specific options.
Go to the Admin interface
Select “Storage” from the left sidebar menu
Click on “Add Storage Pool”
Add a Storage name and select the Site where the storage appliance is installed
Select the appropriate driver, the Storage type and the Storage technologies
Enter the management API’s endpoint. Typically this endpoint URL is found in the appliance’s documentation.
Select the Subnet type (IPv4 or IPv6)
Enter the Storage pool array id (the ID of the storage system, this is normally the first ID fragment from the URL of a storage object in the UI)
The maintenance flag should be set on if the storage is not to be made automatically available to users.
The experimental flag should be set on if the storage should be made available only to users with the “experimental” flag on.
The storage name is a name available only to admins
The password field is the password that the system uses to provision LUNS via the management API. It is not what servers will use to connect over iSCSI. That password will be generated automatically.
The pool should appear in the list. Check that available disk space is what is expected.