Chapter 1. Introduction

This document describes how to use the Director to deploy a NetApp appliance as a back end to the Overcloud’s Block Storage service. The following sections assume that:

When Red Hat OpenStack Platform is deployed through the Director, all major Overcloud settings (in particular, the Block Storage service back end) must be defined and orchestrated through the Director as well. This ensures that the settings will persist through any further Overcloud updates.

This document explains how to orchestrate your desired NetApp back end configuration to the Overcloud’s Block Storage service. This document will not discuss the different deployment configurations possible with the NetApp back end. Rather, to learn more about the different available NetApp deployment choices, see Theory of Operation & Deployment Choices (from the NetApp OpenStack Deployment and Operations Guide).

Once you are familiar with the resulting back end configuration you want to deploy (and its corresponding settings), refer to this document for instructions on how to orchestrate it through the Director.