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• netapp-array-password | string

  Password for the NetApp E-Series storage array.

• netapp-controller-ips | string

  This option is only utilized when the storage family is configured to eseries. This option is used to restrict provisioning to the specified controllers. Specify the value of this option to be a comma separated list of controller hostnames or IP addresses to be used for provisioning.

• netapp-enable-multiattach | boolean

  This option specifies whether the driver should allow operations that require multiple attachments to a volume. An example would be live migration of servers that have volumes attached. When enabled, this backend is limited to 256 total volumes in order to guarantee volumes can be accessed by more than one host.

• netapp-login | string

  Administrative user account name used to access the storage system or proxy server.

• netapp-lun-space-reservation | boolean

  Default: True

  This option determines if storage space is reserved for LUN allocation. If enabled, LUNs are thick provisioned. If space reservation is disabled, storage space is allocated on demand.

• netapp-nfs-shares-config | string

  The file referenced by this configuration option should contain a list of NFS shares, each on their own line, to which the driver should attempt to provision new Cinder volumes into.

• netapp-password | string

  Password for the administrative user account specified in the netapp_login option.

• netapp-pool-name-search-pattern | string

  This option is used to restrict provisioning to the specified pools. Specify the value of this option to be a regular expression which will be applied to the names of objects from the storage backend which represent pools in Cinder. This option is only utilized when the storage protocol is configured to use iSCSI or FC.

• netapp-server-hostname | string

  The hostname (or IP address) for the storage system or proxy server.

• netapp-server-port | int

  The TCP port to use for communication with the storage system or proxy server. If not specified, Data ONTAP drivers will use 80 for HTTP and 443 for HTTPS; E-Series will use 8080 for HTTP and 8443 for HTTPS.

• netapp-storage-family | string

  Default: ontap_cluster

  The storage family type used on the storage system; valid values are ontap_cluster for using clustered Data ONTAP, or eseries for using E-Series.

• netapp-storage-protocol | string

  Default: iscsi

  SAN protocol to use. Choose between iscsi or NFS.

• netapp-vserver | string

  This option specifies the virtual storage server (Vserver) name on the storage cluster on which provisioning of block storage volumes should occur.

• use-multipath | boolean

  Default: True

  Use multipath for image transfer. The volume_use_multipath option should be set to True in the nova.conf

• volume-backend-name | string

  Default: cinder_netapp

  Service name to present to Cinder