Fibre Channel support in Compute
Fibre Channel support in OpenStack Compute is remote block
storage attached to Compute nodes for VMs.
In the Grizzly release, Fibre Channel supported only the KVM
hypervisor.
Compute and Block Storage for Fibre Channel do not support automatic
zoning. 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:
sysfstools - Nova uses the
systool application in this
package.
sg3-utils - Nova uses the
sg_scan and
sginfo applications.
Installing the multipath-tools
package is optional.
Install required packages
Use these commands to install the system
packages:
For systems running Ubuntu:
$ sudo apt-get install sysfstools sg3-utils multipath-tools
For systems running Red Hat:
$ sudo yum install sysfstools sg3_utils multipath-tools