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the reliable volume is provided by Ceph cluster with CSI,  and which used by MinIO standalone server, MinIO clinet plugin code interact with S3 API to provide object service for REST API agent.

Optane PM (Persistent Memory) Plugin

Optane PM and PMEM-CSI

The term persistent memory is used to describe technologies which allow programs to access data as memory, directly byte-addressable, while the contents are non-volatile, preserved across power cycles. It has aspects that are like memory, and aspects that are like storage.

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To enable the Optane PM (Persistent Memory) on cloud native application, Intel has develop the PMEM-CSI driver for Kubernetes. Intel PMEM-CSI is a CSI (Container Storage Interface) storage driver for container orchestrators like Kubernetes. It makes local persistent memory (PMEM) available as a filesystem volume to container applications. It can currently utilize non-volatile memory devices that can be controlled via the libndctl utility library.

The PMEM-CSI driver can operate in two different device modes: LVM and direct.

  1. In Logical Volume Management (LVM) mode the PMEM-CSI driver uses LVM for logical volume Management to avoid the risk of fragmentation. The LVM logical volumes are served to satisfy API requests. There is one volume group created per region, ensuring the region-affinity of served volumes. 
  2. In direct device mode PMEM-CSI driver allocates namespaces directly from the storage device. This creates device space fragmentation risk, but reduces complexity and run-time overhead by avoiding additional device mapping layer. Direct mode also ensures the region-affinity of served volumes, because provisioned volume can belong to one region only.

For the Optane PM plugin in ICN, we support LVM mode, which provide CSI plugin and CSI driver.

Application can directly create StorageClass and PersistentVolumeClaim to use it as LVM volume. The common usage scenario for Optane PM is mount as cache partition or store metadata for filesystem or clusters (Ceph for example), this work will be design in future release.

devicemode-lvm diagramImage Added

Implementation

Optane PM plugin is part of KUD plugin addons, the bring up process defined in KUD deployment_infra ansible playbook.d