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Hi all, I found a article about Hyper-V virtual Fiber Channel, I think this will make Failover Cluster work if KVM has the same feature. http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh831413.aspx Hyper-V uses NPIV for virtual Fiber Channel, I have read some article about KVM NPIV, but how can I config it with libvirt? Any body can show me some example? On Wed, Aug 14, 2013 at 2:33 PM, Timon Wang

...ses NPIV for virtual Fiber Channel, I have read some article > about KVM NPIV, but how can I config it with libvirt? Any body can > show me some example? A web search turns up this: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/Fedora/18/html/Virtualization_Administration_Guide/sect-Technical_Papers-Identifying_HBAs_in_a_Host_System-Confirming_That_IO_Traffic_is_Going_through_an_NPIV_HBA.html You can use this if the host has a supported Fibre Channel HBA and your image is on a SAN LUN. >From my limited knowledge about this, NPIV itself won't make clustering possible. RAC or Failure Cluster probably still require spec...

...Channel, I have read some article >> about KVM NPIV, but how can I config it with libvirt? Any body can >> show me some example? > > A web search turns up this: > > https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/Fedora/18/html/Virtualization_Administration_Guide/sect-Technical_Papers-Identifying_HBAs_in_a_Host_System-Confirming_That_IO_Traffic_is_Going_through_an_NPIV_HBA.html > > You can use this if the host has a supported Fibre Channel HBA and your > image is on a SAN LUN. > > From my limited knowledge about this, NPIV itself won't make clustering > possible. RAC or Failure Cluster pro...