similar to: Doc v2: How to use NPIV in libvirt

Before posting it to WIKI or somewhere, I want to see if there is any suggestions on it, or if I missed something. ============================================ How to use NPIV in libvirt I planned to wrote a document about how to use NPIV in libvirt after more features are supported, but it looks like I can't wait till then, got lots lots of questions from both the

On 01.02.2016 22:48, Vaknin, Rami wrote: > Hi, > > I'm trying to attach a host FC HBA to VM (NPIV). > > Running ovirt 3.5 on CentOS 6.7, libvirt-0.10.2-46.el6_6.6.x86_64, I created vHBA using nodedev-create command - see below HBA and vHBA. > I wrote a vdsm hook which appends the vHBA xml stanza to the devices xml element but the vm start starts without the vHBA device.

On 02/08/2016 06:01 PM, Vaknin, Rami wrote: > Thank you for your reply, > I'm still getting hard time to attach the hostdev, I couldn't make it work out of the doc. > > I took the address details from: > > # ll /sys/bus/scsi/devices/7:* > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 0 Feb 8 12:58 /sys/bus/scsi/devices/7:0:0:0 ->

Hi, I'm trying to attach a host FC HBA to VM (NPIV). Running ovirt 3.5 on CentOS 6.7, libvirt-0.10.2-46.el6_6.6.x86_64, I created vHBA using nodedev-create command - see below HBA and vHBA. I wrote a vdsm hook which appends the vHBA xml stanza to the devices xml element but the vm start starts without the vHBA device. Also, when trying to attach the device manually as a live device - I get:

Thank you for your reply, I'm still getting hard time to attach the hostdev, I couldn't make it work out of the doc. I took the address details from: # ll /sys/bus/scsi/devices/7:* lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 0 Feb 8 12:58 /sys/bus/scsi/devices/7:0:0:0 -> ../../../devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:03.0/0000:08:00.1/host7/rport-7:0-0/target7:0:0/7:0:0:0 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 0 Feb 8 12:58

On 08/24/2016 06:31 AM, Johan Kragsterman wrote: > > Hi again! > I saw this last week while I was at KVM Forum, but just haven't had the time until now to start thinking about this stuff again ... as you point out with your questions and replies - NPIV/vHBA is tricky and complicated... I always have try to "clear the decks" of anything else before trying to page how this

Hi, John, and thank you! This was a very thorough and welcome response, I was wondering where all the storage guys were... I will get back to you with more details later, specifically about multipath, since this needs to be investigated thoroughly. I have, with trial and error method, during the elapsed time, been able to attach the NPIV pool LUN to a virtio-scsi controller, and it seems it

Hi! Report from my multipath tests today. My test virtual machine, that runs from an NPIV pool, is not able to use multipath. When I pulled the cable from one of the targets, it crashed. But, strangely, it could boot up again on that other path, that it just crashed on. That tells me it can use both paths, and is not limited to one of them only, but because the multipath layer isn't

Hi! Got a couple of storage questions here. I'm a storage guy, running a new project, and just started with libvirt, but have been using qemu/kvm on other platforms before, as well as oVirt. So, my questions here: I started with creating a vhba, and that went fine, I could see it on the storage side logging in to the target with its wwn. My next step would be to make it persistent, and

Hi again! Need to add here, since I been investigating a bit further, that it seems to be possible to add an NPIV vhba to the guest, using vdsm hooks. I've seen the reference to "host device assignments", which Dan pointed me too, but I didn't really understand the meaning of it at that moment. It would be interesting to hear from someone that have been doing it, how it would

Hi, When I want to use NPIV for a FC HBA in my Linux machine, I got the below error msg in virsh: virsh # nodedev-create /home/kvm/vHBA.xml error: Failed to create node device from /home/kvm/vHBA.xml error: internal error Parent device scsi_host20 is not capable of vport operations I checked the /sys/class folder for my HBA device that I want to use its NPIV feature, it's there:

Hello everyone, Current host build is RHEL 6.2, soon to be upgrading. I'm in the process of mapping out a KVM/RHEV topology. I have questions about the landscape of storage pools and the instantiation of specific scsi_host IDs using virsh nodedev-create and some magic XML definitions. I'm grouping these questions together because the answer to one may impact the other. High-level

On 01/16/2017 05:04 PM, Fam Zheng wrote: > This series implements the proposed fc_host feature of virtio-scsi. > > The first patch updates the data structure changes according to the spec > proposal; the second patch actually implements the operations. > > Fam Zheng (2): > virtio_scsi: Add fc_host definitions > virtio_scsi: Implement fc_host > >

On 06/20/2013 11:07 AM, Dennis Chen wrote: > Hi, > > When I want to use NPIV for a FC HBA in my Linux machine, I got the below > error msg in virsh: > > virsh # nodedev-create /home/kvm/vHBA.xml > error: Failed to create node device from /home/kvm/vHBA.xml > error: internal error Parent device scsi_host20 is not capable of vport > operations > > I checked the

Link: http://wiki.libvirt.org/page/NPIV_in_libvirt Topic: Virtual machine configuration change to use vHBA LUN There is a NPIV storage pool defined on two hosts and pool contains a total of 8 volumes, allocated from a storage device. Source: # virsh vol-list poolvhba0 Name Path ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ unit:0:0:0

This series implements the proposed fc_host feature of virtio-scsi. The first patch updates the data structure changes according to the spec proposal; the second patch actually implements the operations. Fam Zheng (2): virtio_scsi: Add fc_host definitions virtio_scsi: Implement fc_host drivers/scsi/virtio_scsi.c | 55 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-

This series implements the proposed fc_host feature of virtio-scsi. The first patch updates the data structure changes according to the spec proposal; the second patch actually implements the operations. Fam Zheng (2): virtio_scsi: Add fc_host definitions virtio_scsi: Implement fc_host drivers/scsi/virtio_scsi.c | 55 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-

Hi All, With the help of Chuck Tuffli, I'm now able to use CTL to export a zvol over FC to a Linux host: LUN Backend Size (Blocks) BS Serial Number Device ID 0 block 4185915392 512 FBSDZFS001 ORA_ASM_01 lun_type=0 num_threads=14 file=/dev/zvol/tank/oracle_asm_01 1 block 4185915392 512 FBSDZFS002 ORA_ASM_02

v2: Fix endianness of WWNN/WWPN. [Paolo] This series implements the proposed fc_host feature of virtio-scsi. The first patch updates the data structure changes according to the spec proposal; the second patch actually implements the operations. Fam Zheng (2): virtio_scsi: Add fc_host definitions virtio_scsi: Implement fc_host drivers/scsi/virtio_scsi.c | 60

v2: Fix endianness of WWNN/WWPN. [Paolo] This series implements the proposed fc_host feature of virtio-scsi. The first patch updates the data structure changes according to the spec proposal; the second patch actually implements the operations. Fam Zheng (2): virtio_scsi: Add fc_host definitions virtio_scsi: Implement fc_host drivers/scsi/virtio_scsi.c | 60