Prerequisites

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Mayastor is now also referred to as OpenEBS Replicated PV Mayastor.

General

All worker nodes must satisfy the following requirements:

• x86-64 CPU cores with SSE4.2 instruction support

• (Tested on) Linux kernel 5.15 (Recommended) Linux kernel 5.13 or higher. The kernel should have the following modules loaded:

  • nvme-tcp

  • ext4 and optionally xfs

  • Helm version must be v3.7 or later.

• Each worker node which will host an instance of an io-engine pod must have the following resources free and available for exclusive use by that pod:

  • Two CPU cores

  • 1GiB RAM

  • HugePage support

    • A minimum of 2GiB of 2MiB-sized pages

Networking requirements

• Ensure that the following ports are not in use on the node:

  • 10124: Mayastor gRPC server will use this port.

  • 8420 / 4421: NVMf targets will use these ports.

• The firewall settings should not restrict connection to the node.

Recommended resource requirements

io-engine DaemonSet

resources:
  limits:
    cpu: "2"
    memory: "1Gi"
    hugepages-2Mi: "2Gi"
  requests:
    cpu: "2"
    memory: "1Gi"
    hugepages-2Mi: "2Gi"

csi-node DaemonSet

resources:
  limits:
    cpu: "100m"
    memory: "50Mi"
  requests:
    cpu: "100m"
    memory: "50Mi"

csi-controller Deployment

resources:
  limits:
    cpu: "32m"
    memory: "128Mi"
  requests:
    cpu: "16m"
    memory: "64Mi"

api-rest Deployment

resources:
  limits:
    cpu: "100m"
    memory: "64Mi"
  requests:
    cpu: "50m"
    memory: "32Mi"

agent-core

resources:
  limits:
    cpu: "1000m"
    memory: "32Mi"
  requests:
    cpu: "500m"
    memory: "16Mi"

operator-diskpool

resources:
  limits:
    cpu: "100m"
    memory: "32Mi"
  requests:
    cpu: "50m"
    memory: "16Mi"

DiskPool requirements

• Disks must be unpartitioned, unformatted, and used exclusively by the DiskPool.

• The minimum capacity of the disks should be 10 GB.

RBAC permission requirements

• Kubernetes core v1 API-group resources: Pod, Event, Node, Namespace, ServiceAccount, PersistentVolume, PersistentVolumeClaim, ConfigMap, Secret, Service, Endpoint, Event.

• Kubernetes batch API-group resources: CronJob, Job

• Kubernetes apps API-group resources: Deployment, ReplicaSet, StatefulSet, DaemonSet

• Kubernetes storage.k8s.io API-group resources: StorageClass, VolumeSnapshot, VolumeSnapshotContent, VolumeAttachment, CSI-Node

• Kubernetes apiextensions.k8s.io API-group resources: CustomResourceDefinition

• Mayastor Custom Resources that is openebs.io API-group resources: DiskPool

• Custom Resources from Helm chart dependencies of Jaeger that is helpful for debugging:

  • ConsoleLink Resource from console.openshift.io API group

  • ElasticSearch Resource from logging.openshift.io API group

  • Kafka and KafkaUsers from kafka.strimzi.io API group

  • ServiceMonitor from monitoring.coreos.com API group

  • Ingress from networking.k8s.io API group and from extensions API group

  • Route from route.openshift.io API group

  • All resources from jaegertracing.io API group

---
apiVersion: v1
kind: ServiceAccount
metadata:
  name: {{ .Release.Name }}-service-account
  namespace: {{ .Release.Namespace }}
---
kind: ClusterRole
apiVersion: rbac.authorization.k8s.io/v1
metadata:
  name: mayastor-cluster-role
rules:
- apiGroups: ["apiextensions.k8s.io"]
  resources: ["customresourcedefinitions"]
  verbs: ["create", "list"]
  # must read diskpool info
- apiGroups: ["datacore.com"]
  resources: ["diskpools"]
  verbs: ["get", "list", "watch", "update", "replace", "patch"]
  # must update diskpool status
- apiGroups: ["datacore.com"]
  resources: ["diskpools/status"]
  verbs: ["update", "patch"]
  # external provisioner & attacher
- apiGroups: [""]
  resources: ["persistentvolumes"]
  verbs: ["get", "list", "watch", "update", "create", "delete", "patch"]
- apiGroups: [""]
  resources: ["nodes"]
  verbs: ["get", "list", "watch"]

  # external provisioner
- apiGroups: [""]
  resources: ["persistentvolumeclaims"]
  verbs: ["get", "list", "watch", "update"]
- apiGroups: ["storage.k8s.io"]
  resources: ["storageclasses"]
  verbs: ["get", "list", "watch"]
- apiGroups: [""]
  resources: ["events"]
  verbs: ["list", "watch", "create", "update", "patch"]
- apiGroups: ["snapshot.storage.k8s.io"]
  resources: ["volumesnapshots"]
  verbs: ["get", "list"]
- apiGroups: ["snapshot.storage.k8s.io"]
  resources: ["volumesnapshotcontents"]
  verbs: ["get", "list"]
- apiGroups: [""]
  resources: ["nodes"]
  verbs: ["get", "list", "watch"]

  # external attacher
- apiGroups: ["storage.k8s.io"]
  resources: ["volumeattachments"]
  verbs: ["get", "list", "watch", "update", "patch"]
- apiGroups: ["storage.k8s.io"]
  resources: ["volumeattachments/status"]
  verbs: ["patch"]
  # CSI nodes must be listed
- apiGroups: ["storage.k8s.io"]
  resources: ["csinodes"]
  verbs: ["get", "list", "watch"]

  # get kube-system namespace to retrieve Uid
- apiGroups: [""]
  resources: ["namespaces"]
  verbs: ["get"]
---
kind: ClusterRoleBinding
apiVersion: rbac.authorization.k8s.io/v1
metadata:
  name: mayastor-cluster-role-binding
subjects:
- kind: ServiceAccount
  name: {{ .Release.Name }}-service-account
  namespace: {{ .Release.Namespace }}
roleRef:
  kind: ClusterRole
  name: mayastor-cluster-role
  apiGroup: rbac.authorization.k8s.io

Minimum worker node count

The minimum supported worker node count is three nodes. When using the synchronous replication feature (N-way mirroring), the number of worker nodes to which Mayastor is deployed should be no less than the desired replication factor.

Transport protocols

Mayastor supports the export and mounting of volumes over NVMe-oF TCP only. Worker node(s) on which a volume may be scheduled (to be mounted) must have the requisite initiator support installed and configured. In order to reliably mount Mayastor volumes over NVMe-oF TCP, a worker node's kernel version must be 5.13 or later and the nvme-tcp kernel module must be loaded.