Fibre Channel support in Compute
Fibre Channel support in OpenStack Compute is remote block
storage attached to compute nodes for VMs.
In the Grizzly release, Fibre Channel supported only the KVM
hypervisor.
Compute and Block Storage support Fibre Channel automatic zoning on
Brocade and Cisco switches. On other hardware Fibre Channel arrays must
be pre-zoned or directly attached to the KVM hosts.
KVM host requirements
You must install these packages on the KVM host:
sysfsutils - Nova uses the
systool application in this
package.
sg3-utils or sg3_utils - Nova uses the
sg_scan and
sginfo applications.
Installing the multipath-tools
package is optional.
Install required packages
Use these commands to install the system
packages:
For systems running openSUSE or SUSE Linux Enterprise
Server:
# zypper install sysfsutils sg3_utils multipath-tools
For systems running Red Hat:
# yum install sysfsutils sg3_utils device-mapper-multipath
For systems running Ubuntu:
# apt-get install sysfsutils sg3-utils multipath-tools