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This patch updates block storage config reference documentation by adding a section describing Fibre Channel Zone Manager and Brocade Fibre Channel Zone Driver configuration details. Change-Id: I315b92f10b7b6cb63046fa9c377cdce191450cea Closes-Bug: #1284993
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3.5 KiB
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<section xml:id="section_fc-zoning" xmlns="http://docbook.org/ns/docbook"
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xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude"
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xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" version="5.0">
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<title>Fibre Channel Zone Manager</title>
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<para>The Fibre Channel Zone Manager allows FC SAN Zone/Access
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control management in conjunction with Fibre Channel block
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storage. The configuration of Fibre Channel Zone Manager and
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various zone drivers are described in this section.</para>
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<section xml:id="enable-fc-zone-manager">
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<title>Configure Block Storage to use Fibre Channel Zone Manager
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</title>
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<para>If Block Storage is configured to use a Fibre Channel volume
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driver that supports Zone Manager, update
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<filename>cinder.conf</filename> to add the following
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configuration options to enable Fibre Channel Zone Manager.
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</para>
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<para>Make the following changes in the
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<filename>/etc/cinder/cinder.conf</filename>
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file.</para>
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<xi:include href="../../common/tables/cinder-zoning.xml"/>
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<para>To use different Fibre Channel Zone Drivers, use the
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parameters described in this section.</para>
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<note>
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<para>When multi backend configuration is used, provide
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the <option>zoning_mode</option> configuration option as
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part of the volume driver configuration where
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<option>volume_driver</option> option is specified.</para>
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</note>
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<note>
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<para>Default value of <option>zoning_mode</option> is
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<literal>None</literal> and this needs to be changed to
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<literal>fabric</literal> to allow fabric zoning.</para>
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</note>
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<note>
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<para><option>zoning_policy</option> can be configured as
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<literal>initiator-target</literal> or
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<literal>initiator</literal>
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</para>
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</note>
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</section>
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<section xml:id="brcd-fc-zone-driver">
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<title>Brocade Fibre Channel Zone Driver</title>
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<para>Brocade Fibre Channel Zone Driver performs zoning operations
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via SSH. Configure Brocade Zone Driver and lookup service by
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specifying the following parameters:</para>
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<xi:include href="../../common/tables/cinder-zoning_manager.xml"/>
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<para>Configure SAN fabric parameters in the form of fabric
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groups as described in the example below:</para>
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<xi:include href="../../common/tables/cinder-zoning_fabric.xml"/>
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<note>
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<para>Define a fabric group for each fabric using the fabric names
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used in <option>fc_fabric_names</option> configuration option
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as group name.
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</para>
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</note>
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<section xml:id="brcd-zone-driver-sys-reqs">
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<title>System requirements</title>
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<para>Brocade Fibre Channel Zone Driver requires firmware version
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FOS v6.4 or higher.</para>
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<para>As a best practice for zone management, use a user account
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with <literal>zoneadmin</literal> role.
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Users with <literal>admin</literal> role (including the default
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<literal>admin</literal> user account) are limited to a maximum
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of two concurrent SSH sessions.
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</para>
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<para>For information about how to manage Brocade Fibre Channel
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switches, see the Brocade Fabric OS user documentation.</para>
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</section>
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</section>
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</section>
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