[RFE] Generic RAID interface for Ironic

[Vladyslav Drok]

The proposal presents the work required to create a new driver interface for
RAID configuration. It also proposes a method to make RAID configuration
available as part of zapping.

[Vladyslav Drok (vdrok)]

Depends on bug 1526398.

[Ruby Loo (rloo)]

Specification has been approved and is available at http://specs.openstack.org/openstack/ironic-specs/specs/approved/ironic-generic-raid-interface.html.

Copying this from the old BP (https://blueprints.launchpad.net/ironic/+spec/ironic-generic-raid-interface):

Spec: http://specs.openstack.org/openstack/ironic-specs/specs/liberty/ironic-generic-raid-interface.html

Spec Review: https://review.openstack.org/#/c/135899/

Gerrit topic: https://review.openstack.org/#q,topic:bp/ironic-generic-raid-interface,n,z

Addressed by: https://review.openstack.org/155230
    Add driver interface for RAID configuration

Bumping to Liberty since this depends on the Zapping state (which has already been bumped)
- Devananda, 13 Mar 2015

Addressed by: https://review.openstack.org/162451
    Refactor method to add or update capability string

Gerrit topic: https://review.openstack.org/#q,topic:(detached,n,z

Addressed by: https://review.openstack.org/196003
    Add RAIDInterface for RAID configuration

Addressed by: https://review.openstack.org/196006
    Add RPCAPIs for RAID configuration

Addressed by: https://review.openstack.org/196007
    Add APIs for RAID configuration

Addressed by: https://review.openstack.org/198238
    Add support for inband raid configuration agent ramdisk

Addressed by: https://review.openstack.org/216946
    Add new method validate_raid_config to RAIDInterface

Addressed by: https://review.openstack.org/221939
    Cache the description of RAID properties

Addressed by: https://review.openstack.org/224356
    Document GET ...raid/logical_disk_properties

Gerrit topic: https://review.openstack.org/#q,topic:raid-schema,n,z

Addressed by: https://review.openstack.org/224299
    Update descriptions in RAID config schema

I believe we just need zapping and docs to call this implemented, right? // jroll 20151015

[Dan Yocum (yocum)]

[RFE] - add 'nvme' as an interface_type in addition to 'sata', 'scsi', and 'sas'.

[OpenStack Infra (hudson-openstack)]

Reviewed: https://review.openstack.org/226330
Committed: https://git.openstack.org/cgit/openstack/ironic/commit/?id=139358b396cdaa810c577e7e4f5ef75900fc64a4
Submitter: Jenkins
Branch: master

commit 139358b396cdaa810c577e7e4f5ef75900fc64a4
Author: Nisha Agarwal <email address hidden>
Date: Tue Sep 22 13:54:41 2015 +0000

    Add documentation for RAID

    This commit adds documentation for RAID.

    Closes-bug: 1526400

    Change-Id: I7691c067afa300464c3160f1aa3d3eda64a9aa37