Storage Network

By Default, Longhorn uses the default Kubernetes cluster CNI network that is limited to a single interface and shared with other workloads cluster-wide. In case you have a situation where network segregation is needed, Longhorn supports isolating Longhorn in-cluster data traffic with the Storage Network setting.

The Storage Network setting takes Multus NetworkAttachmentDefinition in <NAMESPACE>/<NAME> format.

You can refer to Comprehensive Document for how to install and set up Multus NetworkAttachmentDefintion.

Applying the setting will add k8s.v1.cni.cncf.io/networks annotation and recreate all existing instance-manager, and backing-image-manager pods. Longhorn will apply the same annotation to any new instance-manager, backing-image-manager, and backing-image-data-source pods.

Warning: Do not change this setting with volumes attached.

Longhorn will try to block this setting update when there are attached volumes.

Setting Storage Network

Prerequisite

The Multus NetworkAttachmentDefinition network for the storage network setting must be reachable in pods across different cluster nodes.

You can verify by creating a simple DaemonSet and try ping between pods.

Setting Storage Network During Longhorn Installation

Follow the Customize default settings to set Storage Network by changing the value for the storage-network default setting

Warning: Longhorn instance-manager will not start if the Storage Network setting is invalid.

You can check the events of the instance-manager Pod to see if it is related to an invalid NetworkAttachmentDefintion with kubectl -n longhorn-system describe pods -l longhorn.io/component=instance-manager.

If this is the case, provide a valid NetworkAttachmentDefinition and re-run Longhorn install.

Setting Storage Network After Longhorn Installation

Set the setting Storage Network.

Warning: Do not modify the NetworkAttachmentDefinition custom resource after applying it to the setting.

Longhorn is not aware of the updates. Hence this will cause malfunctioning and error. Instead, you can create a new NetworkAttachmentDefinition custom resource and update it to the setting.

History

Original Feature Request

Available since v1.3.0