For Block Storage service. backport: mitaka Change-Id: Id8424e25081f32fcd6d5312bed2a469da27a8eff Closes-Bug: #1453243
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Fibre Channel Zone Manager
The Fibre Channel Zone Manager allows FC SAN Zone/Access control management in conjunction with Fibre Channel block storage. The configuration of Fibre Channel Zone Manager and various zone drivers are described in this section.
Configure Block Storage to use Fibre Channel Zone Manager
If Block Storage is configured to use a Fibre Channel volume driver
that supports Zone Manager, update cinder.conf
to add the
following configuration options to enable Fibre Channel Zone
Manager.
Make the following changes in the
/etc/cinder/cinder.conf
file.
To use different Fibre Channel Zone Drivers, use the parameters described in this section.
Note
When multi backend configuration is used, provide the
zoning_mode
configuration option as part of the volume
driver configuration where volume_driver
option is
specified.
Note
Default value of zoning_mode
is None
and
this needs to be changed to fabric
to allow fabric
zoning.
Note
zoning_policy
can be configured as
initiator-target
or initiator
Brocade Fibre Channel Zone Driver
Brocade Fibre Channel Zone Driver performs zoning operations through HTTP, HTTPS, or SSH.
Set the following options in the cinder.conf
configuration file.
Configure SAN fabric parameters in the form of fabric groups as described in the example below:
Note
Define a fabric group for each fabric using the fabric names used in
fc_fabric_names
configuration option as group name.
Note
To define a fabric group for a switch which has Virtual Fabrics
enabled, include the fc_virtual_fabric_id
configuration
option and fc_southbound_protocol
configuration option set
to HTTP
or HTTPS
in the fabric group. Zoning
on VF enabled fabric using SSH
southbound protocol is not
supported.
System requirements
Brocade Fibre Channel Zone Driver requires firmware version FOS v6.4 or higher.
As a best practice for zone management, use a user account with
zoneadmin
role. Users with admin
role
(including the default admin
user account) are limited to a
maximum of two concurrent SSH sessions.
For information about how to manage Brocade Fibre Channel switches, see the Brocade Fabric OS user documentation.
Cisco Fibre Channel Zone Driver
Cisco Fibre Channel Zone Driver automates the zoning operations through SSH. Configure Cisco Zone Driver, Cisco Southbound connector, FC SAN lookup service and Fabric name.
Set the following options in the cinder.conf
configuration file.
[fc-zone-manager]
zone_driver = cinder.zonemanager.drivers.cisco.cisco_fc_zone_driver.CiscoFCZoneDriver
fc_san_lookup_service = cinder.zonemanager.drivers.cisco.cisco_fc_san_lookup_service.CiscoFCSanLookupService
fc_fabric_names = CISCO_FABRIC_EXAMPLE
cisco_sb_connector = cinder.zonemanager.drivers.cisco.cisco_fc_zone_client_cli.CiscoFCZoneClientCLI
Configure SAN fabric parameters in the form of fabric groups as described in the example below:
Note
Define a fabric group for each fabric using the fabric names used in
fc_fabric_names
configuration option as group name.
The Cisco Fibre Channel Zone Driver supports basic and enhanced
zoning modes.The zoning VSAN must exist with an active zone set name
which is same as the fc_fabric_names
option.
System requirements
Cisco MDS 9000 Family Switches.
Cisco MDS NX-OS Release 6.2(9) or later.
For information about how to manage Cisco Fibre Channel switches, see the Cisco MDS 9000 user documentation.