nova/nova/storage
Walter A. Boring IV 052859fbdb Fibre channel block storage support (nova changes)
implements blueprint libvirt-fibre-channel

These changes constitute the required libvirt changes to
support attaching Fibre Channel volumes to a VM.

This requires a few new packages to be available on the system
sysfsutils -- This is needed to discover the FC HBAs
sg3-utils -- this package is needed for scsi device discovery
multipath -- This package is needed for multipath support.

Typical Fibre Channel arrays support exporting volumes via
multiple ports, so multipath support is highly desirable
for fault tolerance.  If multipath is not installed,
the new FibreChannel libvirt volume driver will still work.

If multipath is enabled, the new Fibre Channel volume driver
detects each of the attached devices for the volume, and
properly removes every one of them on detach.

In order to use this, the cinder volume driver's
initialize_connection will simply return a dictionary
with a new driver_volume_type called 'fibrechan'.

The target_wwn can be a single entry or a list of wwns
that correspond to the list of remote wwn(s) that will
export the volume.

return {'driver_volume_type': 'fibre_channel',
        'data': {'target_lun', 1,
                 'target_wwn': '1234567890123'}}

or

return {'driver_volume_type': 'fibre_channel',
        'data': {'target_lun', 1,
                 'target_wwn': ['1234567890123',
                                '0987654321321']}}

Change-Id: Ifccc56f960ef434f7cb56a9367e4cad288358440
2013-02-18 18:15:40 -08:00
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__init__.py Fibre channel block storage support (nova changes) 2013-02-18 18:15:40 -08:00
linuxscsi.py Fibre channel block storage support (nova changes) 2013-02-18 18:15:40 -08:00