openstack-manuals/doc/common/section_fibrechannel.xml
Tom Fifield f9cdba79aa Fixes to common section docs
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A cohort of small changes, reducing cruft and improving clarity of
these common sections.

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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<section xmlns="http://docbook.org/ns/docbook" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" version="5.0" xml:id="fibrechannel">
<title>Nova Compute Fibre Channel Support</title>
<section xml:id="fibre-channel-overview"><title>Overview of Fibre Channel Support</title>
<para>
<itemizedlist>
<listitem>
<para>Fibre Channel support in OpenStack Compute is remote block storage attached
to Compute nodes for VMs.</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>In the Grizzly release, Fibre Channel only supports the KVM hypervisor.</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>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.</para>
</listitem>
</itemizedlist>
</para>
</section>
<section xml:id="fibre-channel-reqs">
<title>Requirements for KVM Hosts</title>
<para>The KVM host must have the following system packages installed:</para>
<para>
<itemizedlist>
<listitem>
<para>
<filename>sysfstools</filename> - Nova uses the <filename>systool</filename>
application in this package.</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
<filename>sg3-utils</filename> - Nova uses the <filename>sg_scan</filename>
and <filename>sginfo</filename> applications.</para>
</listitem>
</itemizedlist>
</para>
<para>Installing the <filename>multipath-tools</filename> package is optional.</para>
</section>
<section xml:id="fibre-channel-packages">
<title>Installing the Required Packages</title>
<para>Use the following commands to install the system packages.</para>
<para>
<itemizedlist>
<listitem>
<para>For systems running Ubuntu:</para>
<para>
<screen><prompt>$</prompt> <userinput>sudo apt-get install sysfstools sg3-utils multipath-tools</userinput></screen>
</para>
</listitem>
</itemizedlist>
</para>
<itemizedlist>
<listitem>
<para>For systems running Red Hat:</para>
<para>
<screen><prompt>$</prompt> <userinput>sudo yum install sysfstools sg3_utils multipath-tools</userinput></screen>
</para>
</listitem>
</itemizedlist>
</section>
</section>