Storages

Storages

Storages the basic ingredient - [DISK) for a cloud operating system. The storage plugins supported in Rio OS are

• Local
• NFS
• Ceph

The storage plugins are easily extendable.

Storlet

Storage is managed by Storlet. Storlet is an agent that manages the storage for digitalcloud, containers, blockchain-backed apps.

Storlet uses storage plugin to integrate any storage of bare metal server with Rio OS.

Pre reqs

You must have completed installation of storlet.

Configuration

The configuration storlet.rioconfig is automatically created during installation

Installation

sudo systemctl stop rioos_storlet

sudo systemctl start rioos_storlet

To tail the logs of the storlet

sudo journalctl -u rioos_storlet.service -f

Storage Plugins

Local

Local plugin is turned on by default. Storlet automatically registers the node it runs to be consumed as storage.

NFS

NFS plugin is turned on if storlet detects the presence of nfs-server. Storlet automatically registers the node it runs to be consumed as NFS storage.

Ceph

Ceph plugin is turned on if storlet detects the presence of ceph-deploy. Storlet automatically registers the node it runs to be consumed as Ceph storage.

To scale storage, repeat the registration in another node

• Copy the /var/lib/rioos/config/storlet.rioconfig

• Perform the installation

Storage Pool

A partitioned storage space served by a storage plugin. As many partitioned storage space can be created inside a storage served by the plugin limited to the availability of disk space.

Verify

CLI

Watch asciinema to list storages.

UI

Login command center

Click Settings > Infrastructure

Click Storages

In this case there is one registered storage using NFS plugin.

Click Create Pool > from the right side

In this case there are two registered storages using NFS plugin with two storage pools.