openstack-manuals/doc/common/section_fibrechannel.xml
Stephen Gordon 1ce889869e sg3-utils may also be sg3_utils
The naming of the package containing the sg3_utils project differs by
platform.

Change-Id: Ica34770618d3b2c9e25895984ab6e97d6664fb3a
Closes-Bug: #1397330
2014-11-28 12:34:50 -05:00

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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<section xmlns="http://docbook.org/ns/docbook"
xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude"
xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink"
version="5.0"
xml:id="fibrechannel">
<title>Fibre Channel support in Compute</title>
<para>Fibre Channel support in OpenStack Compute is remote block
storage attached to compute nodes for VMs.</para>
<!-- TODO: This below statement needs to be verified for current release-->
<para>In the Grizzly release, Fibre Channel supported only the KVM
hypervisor.</para>
<para>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.</para>
<section xml:id="fibre-channel-reqs">
<title>KVM host requirements</title>
<para>You must install these packages on the KVM host:</para>
<itemizedlist>
<listitem>
<para>
<package>sysfsutils</package> - Nova uses the
<package>systool</package> application in this
package.</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
<package>sg3-utils</package> or <package>sg3_utils</package> - Nova uses the
<package>sg_scan</package> and
<package>sginfo</package> applications.</para>
</listitem>
</itemizedlist>
<para>Installing the <package>multipath-tools</package>
package is optional.</para>
</section>
<section xml:id="fibre-channel-packages">
<title>Install required packages</title>
<para>Use these commands to install the system
packages:</para>
<itemizedlist>
<listitem>
<para>For systems running openSUSE or SUSE Linux Enterprise
Server:</para>
<screen><prompt>#</prompt> <userinput>zypper install sysfsutils sg3_utils multipath-tools</userinput></screen>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>For systems running Red Hat:</para>
<screen><prompt>#</prompt> <userinput>yum install sysfsutils sg3_utils multipath-tools</userinput></screen>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>For systems running Ubuntu:</para>
<screen><prompt>#</prompt> <userinput>apt-get install sysfsutils sg3-utils multipath-tools</userinput></screen>
</listitem>
</itemizedlist>
</section>
</section>