nova/doc/source/admin/configuration/fibre-channel.rst
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Import the following files from the former config-reference [1]:

  api.rst
  cells.rst
  fibre-channel.rst
  hypervisor-basics.rst
  hypervisor-hyper-v.rst
  hypervisor-kvm.rst
  hypervisor-lxc.rst
  hypervisor-qemu.rst
  hypervisor-virtuozzo.rst
  hypervisor-vmware.rst
  hypervisor-xen-api.rst
  hypervisor-xen-libvirt.rst
  hypervisors.rst
  index.rst
  iscsi-offload.rst
  logs.rst
  resize.rst
  samples/api-paste.ini.rst
  samples/index.rst
  samples/policy.yaml.rst
  samples/rootwrap.conf.rst
  schedulers.rst

The below files are skipped as they're already included, in slightly
different forms, in the nova documentation.

  config-options.rst
  nova-conf-samples.rst
  nova-conf.rst
  nova.conf

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Configuring Fibre Channel Support

Fibre Channel support in OpenStack Compute is remote block storage attached to compute nodes for VMs.

This below statement needs to be verified for current release

Fibre Channel supported only the KVM hypervisor.

Compute and Block Storage support Fibre Channel automatic zoning on Brocade and Cisco switches. On other hardware Fibre Channel arrays must be pre-zoned or directly attached to the KVM hosts.

KVM host requirements

You must install these packages on the KVM host:

sysfsutils

Nova uses the systool application in this package.

sg3-utils or sg3_utils

Nova uses the sg_scan and sginfo applications.

Installing the multipath-tools or device-mapper-multipath package is optional.