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Fibre Channel support in Compute

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

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.