To use the Violin driver, the following are required:
Violin 7300/7700 series FSP with:
Concerto OS version 7.5.3 or later
Fibre channel host interfaces
The Violin block storage driver: This driver implements the block storage API calls. The driver is included with the OpenStack Liberty release.
The vmemclient library: This is the Violin Array Communications library to the Flash Storage Platform through a REST-like interface. The client can be installed using the python 'pip' installer tool. Further information on vmemclient can be found on PyPI .
pip install vmemclient