Configuring Fibre Channel Support¶
Fibre Channel support in OpenStack Compute is remote block storage attached to compute nodes for VMs.
Todo
This below statement needs to be verified for current 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
orsg3_utils
Nova uses the
sg_scan
andsginfo
applications.
Installing the multipath-tools
or device-mapper-multipath
package is
optional.