57 lines
2.6 KiB
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57 lines
2.6 KiB
XML
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
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<section 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"
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version="5.0"
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xml:id="fibrechannel">
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<title>Fibre Channel support in Compute</title>
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<para>Fibre Channel support in OpenStack Compute is remote block
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storage attached to compute nodes for VMs.</para>
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<!-- TODO: This below statement needs to be verified for current release-->
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<para>In the Grizzly release, Fibre Channel supported only the KVM
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hypervisor.</para>
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<para>Compute and Block Storage support Fibre Channel automatic zoning on
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Brocade and Cisco switches. On other hardware Fibre Channel arrays must
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be pre-zoned or directly attached to the KVM hosts.</para>
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<section xml:id="fibre-channel-reqs">
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<title>KVM host requirements</title>
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<para>You must install these packages on the KVM host:</para>
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<itemizedlist>
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<listitem>
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<para>
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<package>sysfsutils</package> - Nova uses the
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<package>systool</package> application in this
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package.</para>
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</listitem>
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<listitem>
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<para>
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<package>sg3-utils</package> or <package>sg3_utils</package> - Nova uses the
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<package>sg_scan</package> and
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<package>sginfo</package> applications.</para>
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</listitem>
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</itemizedlist>
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<para>Installing the <package>multipath-tools</package>
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package is optional.</para>
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</section>
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<section xml:id="fibre-channel-packages">
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<title>Install required packages</title>
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<para>Use these commands to install the system
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packages:</para>
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<itemizedlist>
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<listitem>
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<para>For systems running openSUSE or SUSE Linux Enterprise
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Server:</para>
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<screen><prompt>#</prompt> <userinput>zypper install sysfsutils sg3_utils multipath-tools</userinput></screen>
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</listitem>
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<listitem>
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<para>For systems running Red Hat:</para>
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<screen><prompt>#</prompt> <userinput>yum install sysfsutils sg3_utils multipath-tools</userinput></screen>
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</listitem>
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<listitem>
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<para>For systems running Ubuntu:</para>
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<screen><prompt>#</prompt> <userinput>apt-get install sysfsutils sg3-utils multipath-tools</userinput></screen>
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</listitem>
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</itemizedlist>
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</section>
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</section>
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