PRODUCT DESCRIPTION

The Dell EMC PS Series volume driver interacts with pre-configured PS Series arrays and supports various operations, such as

• Create, delete, attach (map), and detach (unmap) volumes.
• Create, list, and delete volume snapshots.
• Create a volume from a snapshot.
• Copy an image to a volume.
• Copy a volume to an image.
• Clone a volume.
• Extend a volume.
• Manage and UnManage Volume support

The driver service supports:
- Multiple instances of Dell EMC PS Series Groups or Dell EMC PS Series Group storage pools and multiple pools on a single array.
- Multiple instances of Dell EMC PS Series Groups or Dell EMC PS Series Group storage pools or multiple pools on a single array.

When enabled and properly configured, the driver translates the cinder-volume API calls to the appropriate commands issued to the PS Series array. For example, creating and attaching a volume to a VM involves the following operations flow:
- The user initiates creating a volume; cinder-volume invokes the PS Series driver to instantiate the PS Series volume.
- The user boots a VM.
- The user attaches the volume to the desired VM; the hypervisor layer orchestrates passing the iSCSI connection information for the new volume to the appropriate VM. To the VM, the newly-attached volume appears as a locally attached device.

The driver is designed to work with the PS Series SAN arrays with the following capabilities:
- Perpetual self-optimization with automated load balancing across disks, RAID sets, connections, cache and controllers.
- Efficient enterprise scalability for both performance and capacity without fork-lift upgrades.
- Powerful, intelligent and simplified management.
- Improved productivity and streamlined IT infrastructure through unified block and file storage capabilities.

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This PS Series driver is included in Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform. A detailed configuration guide for Red Hat OpenStack Platform 11 is available here.

Configuration information is also available for version 10, version 9, version 8, version 7, version 6 and version 5.