File and Block service

Introduction to File and Block storage service in multi-cloud

SODA Multicloud provides a cloud vendor agnostic data management for hybrid cloud, intercloud, or intracloud. The goal is to provide a unified interface to support file, block, and object services across multiple cloud vendors.

Details about the design and use cases can be found at: multi-cloud File storage and multi-cloud block storage

Getting Started

This guide shows how to use the File and Block storage services of multi-cloud to create and manage cloud volumes and cloud fileshares. This will illustrate the operations through SODA Dashboard.

To refer the API specs, please check multi-cloud API specs

Supported metrics as of now:
Cloud Vendor Block File
AWS EBS EFS
Azure - File share
Huawei EVS EFS
GCP - Filestore

Installing SODA multi-cloud

Please refer SODA installation using Ansible Or Check the developer guide multi-cloud lcoal cluster installation through repo

SODA Dashboard UI can be accessed via
http://{your_host_ip}:8088/#/home
login using the default admin credentials:
admin/opensds@123

Register Backend

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Create new backend using remote cloud bucket

Click on (+) for registering a storage backend. Choose appropriate backend type for Block or File storage

multi-cloud backend register block

multi-cloud backend register file

Create Cloud Volume

  • Go to Resource Manager -> Volumes -> Cloud
  • Click on Create button
  • Select appropriate backend Type from Type drop down
  • Select corresponding Backend name registered from Backend drop down
  • Fill required details for creating the volumes

Tags and Metadata need to be chosen appropriately

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List, Modify and Delete Cloud Volumes

Listing
  • Go to Resource Manager -> Volumes -> Cloud You can find the list of Cloud Volume multi-cloud create list volume
Modify
  • Go to Resource Manager -> Volumes -> Cloud
  • Select the volume to be modified
  • From Operation column, select Modify form the More option You can choose to modify the volume attributes
Delete
  • Go to Resource Manager -> Volumes -> Cloud
  • Select the volume to be deleted
  • From Operation column, select Delete form the More option The volume should be deleted

Create Cloud File Share

  • Go to Resource Manager -> File Share -> Cloud
  • Click on Create button
  • Select appropriate backend Type from Type drop down
  • Select corresponding Backend name registered from Backend drop down
  • Fill required details for creating the file share

Tags and Metadata need to be chosen appropriately

multi-cloud create cloud fileshare

List, Modify and Delete Cloud fileshare

Listing
  • Go to Resource Manager -> File Share -> Cloud You can find the list of Cloud File Shares multi-cloud list cloud fileshare
Modify
  • Go to Resource Manager -> File Share -> Cloud
  • Select the File Share to be modified
  • From Operation column, select Modify form the More option You can choose to modify the File Share attributes
Delete
  • Go to Resource Manager -> File Share -> Cloud
  • Select the File Share to be deleted
  • From Operation column, select Delete form the More option The File Share should be deleted

Please note that the volume or file share attributes, metadata and tags are compatible with Cloud vendors. Please refer cloud vendor docs for more details