Fibre Channel support in OpenStack Compute is remote block storage attached to Compute nodes for VMs. In the Grizzly release, Fibre Channel only supports the KVM hypervisor. There is no automatic zoning support in Nova or Cinder for Fibre Channel.  Fibre Channel arrays must be pre-zoned or directly attached to the KVM hosts.

The KVM host must have the following system packages installed: sysfstools - Nova uses the systool application in this package. sg3-utils - Nova uses the sg_scan and sginfo applications. Installing the multipath-tools package is optional.

Use the following commands to install the system packages. For systems running Ubuntu: $ sudo apt-get install sysfstools sg3-utils multipath-tools For systems running Red Hat: $ sudo yum install sysfstools sg3_utils multipath-tools