About the Access Appliance integration with OpenStack Manila

OpenStack Cinder had the limitation of not being able to share a block device simultaneously between virtual machines. OpenStack Manila solves this problem. OpenStack Manila provides a shared file system as a service. Using OpenStack Manila, you can share a single file system between multiple virtual machines.

Access Appliance is integrated with OpenStack Manila through a OpenStack Manila driver that lets you share Access Appliance file systems with virtual machines on OpenStack.

For the supported OpenStack versions for running the OpenStack Manila driver, see the Veritas Access Installation Guide.

The OpenStack Manila driver can create and manage simple file systems. For the backend to create simple file systems, use va_fstype=simple in the manila.conf file.