Updated docs with the new storage plugin for Dell EMC PowerFlex/ScaleIO (formerly VxFlexOS)

Author: sureshanaparti

source/adminguide/storage.rst

@@ -105,6 +105,7 @@ Storage media \\ hypervisor                    VMware vSphere   Citrix XenServer
 **Storage over-provisioning**                  NFS and iSCSI    NFS                  NFS                         No
 **SMB/CIFS**                                   No               No                   No                          Yes
 **Ceph/RBD**                                   No               No                   Yes                         No
+**PowerFlex/ScaleIO**                          No               No                   Yes                         No
 ============================================== ================ ==================== =========================== ============================
 
 XenServer uses a clustered LVM system to store VM images on iSCSI and

source/conceptsandterminology/concepts.rst

@@ -440,6 +440,9 @@ Storage is not supported in Hyper-V.
 Ceph/RBD storage is only supported by the KVM hypervisor. It can be used
 as Zone-wide Primary Storage.
 
+PowerFlex/ScaleIO (v3.5 & above) is only supported by the KVM hypervisor. It can be used
+as Cluster-wide or Zone-wide Primary Storage.
+
 CloudStack is designed to work with all standards-compliant iSCSI and
 NFS servers that are supported by the underlying hypervisor, including,
 for example:
@@ -452,6 +455,8 @@ for example:
 
 -  Scale Computing for NFS
 
+-  Dell EMC PowerFlex™ (v3.5 & above)
+
 If you intend to use only local disk for your installation, you can skip
 adding separate primary storage.
 

source/installguide/configuration.rst

@@ -498,7 +498,7 @@ Basic Zone Configuration
    -  **Name.** The name of the storage device.
 
    -  **Protocol.** For XenServer, choose either NFS, iSCSI, or
-      PreSetup. For KVM, choose NFS, SharedMountPoint,CLVM, or RBD. For
+      PreSetup. For KVM, choose NFS, SharedMountPoint,CLVM, RBD or PowerFlex. For
       vSphere choose either VMFS (iSCSI or FiberChannel) or NFS. The
       remaining fields in the screen vary depending on what you choose
       here.
@@ -677,7 +677,7 @@ Advanced Zone Configuration
    -  **Name.** The name of the storage device.
 
    -  **Protocol.** For XenServer, choose either NFS, iSCSI, or
-      PreSetup. For KVM, choose NFS, SharedMountPoint, CLVM, and RBD.
+      PreSetup. For KVM, choose NFS, SharedMountPoint, CLVM, RBD or PowerFlex.
       For vSphere choose either VMFS (iSCSI or FiberChannel) or NFS. The
       remaining fields in the screen vary depending on what you choose
       here.
@@ -1181,7 +1181,7 @@ cluster.
    -  **Name.** The name of the storage device.
 
    -  **Protocol.** For XenServer, choose either NFS, iSCSI, or
-      PreSetup. For KVM, choose NFS or SharedMountPoint. For vSphere
+      PreSetup. For KVM, choose NFS, SharedMountPoint or PowerFlex. For vSphere
       choose either VMFS (iSCSI or FiberChannel) or NFS. For Hyper-V,
       choose SMB.
 
@@ -1246,6 +1246,10 @@ Configuring a Storage Plug-in
    primary storage (although most of its features are available through the
    CloudStack UI).
 
+
+SolidFire Plug-in
+~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+
 .. note::
    The SolidFire storage plug-in for CloudStack is part of the standard 
    CloudStack install. There is no additional work required to add this 
@@ -1310,6 +1314,64 @@ example, '=' is represented as '%3D')]
    by (Min IOPS \* clusterDefaultBurstIopsPercentOfMaxIops parameter)
    (can be a decimal value)]
 
+PowerFlex Plug-in
+~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+
+This plugin enables Dell EMC PowerFlex™ (v3.5 onwards) storage pools as a managed
+primary storage in CloudStack for KVM hypervisor.
+
+The ScaleIO storage installation/setup and creation of the ScaleIO storage pool is
+out of scope of this document. For ScaleIO storage installation instructions, Refer
+to ScaleIO product documentation:
+https://www.dell.com/support/home/en-in/product-support/product/scaleio/docs.
+To know more details about PowerFlex/ScaleIO, refer to
+https://cpsdocs.dellemc.com/bundle/PF_KNOW/page/GUID-D6DFA46A-6085-47CE-88A9-B503EFC6CFD2.html.
+
+When this storage pool is used with Compute or Disk Offerings, an administrator is able to
+build an environment in which a root or data disk that a user creates
+leads to the dynamic creation of a PowerFlex/ScaleIO volume, which has
+guaranteed performance with the ScaleIO Data Client (SDC) limits for the
+volume specified using the details parameters: bandwidthLimitInMbps &
+iopsLimit (both defaulted to 0 - unlimited). Such a PowerFlex volume is
+associated with one (and only ever one) CloudStack volume, so performance
+of the CloudStack volume does not vary depending on how heavily other tenants
+are using the system.
+
+The createStoragePool API has been augmented to support plugable storage
+providers. The following is a list of parameters to use when adding
+storage to CloudStack that is based on the PowerFlex plug-in:
+
+-  command=createStoragePool
+
+-  scope=[zone | cluster]
+
+-  zoneid=[your zone id]
+
+-  podid=[your pod id, for cluster-wide primary storage]
+
+-  clusterid=[your cluster id, for cluster-wide primary storage]
+
+-  name=[name for primary storage]
+
+-  hypervisor=KVM
+
+-  provider=PowerFlex
+
+-  url=[storage pool url]
+
+The url parameter contains the PowerFlex storage pool details, specifed
+in the following format:
+
+powerflex://<API_USER>:<API_PASSWORD>@<GATEWAY>/<STORAGEPOOL>
+
+-	<API_USER>=[user name for API access to PowerFlex gateway]
+
+-	<API_PASSWORD>=[password for API access to PowerFlex gateway (password is URL encoded for example, '=' is represented as '%3D')]
+
+-	<GATEWAY>=[PowerFlex gateway host]
+
+-	<STORAGEPOOL>=[PowerFlex storage pool name (case sensitive)]
+
 
 .. _add-secondary-storage:
 

source/installguide/management-server/_nfs.rst

@@ -25,7 +25,7 @@ CloudStack.
 
 .. note::
    NFS is not the only option for primary or secondary storage. For example, 
-   you may use Ceph RBD, GlusterFS, iSCSI, and others. The choice of storage 
+   you may use Ceph RBD, PowerFlex, GlusterFS, iSCSI, and others. The choice of storage 
    system will depend on the choice of hypervisor and whether you are dealing 
    with primary or secondary storage.