I proposed the following project, and it has received a consensus vote
from the opensolaris storage community. I'm mailing this to ogb-discuss
so the project can be created. (Note: I'm also a core team member of
Solaris storage community).
Thanks,
Aaron Dailey
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I'd like to propose an Open Solaris project devoted to implementing
NPort ID Virtualization (NPIV) for the OpenSolaris Fibre Channel driver
stack ("Leadville")
NPIV allows one physical FibreChannel NPort to obtain multiple N Port
IDs. NPIV is especially interesting for servers using a hypervisor. With
NPIV, each guest operating system can have its own N Port ID, so system
administrators can use Fibre Channel zoning and LUN masking for each
guest operating system. Some hypervisor environments support migrating
guest operating systems - with NPIV, the N Port ID will also migrate
with the guest operating system.
There's some background reading on my blog at:
http://blogs.sun.com/AaronDailey/entry/more_npiv_reading
http://blogs.sun.com/AaronDailey/entry/npiv_and_solaris_fibrechannel
This project will add support for NPIV to the OpenSolaris FibreChannel
stack, and also add the NPIV support for Xen and Logical Domains.
Initially it will be endorsed by the storage community.
Project Leaders:
Aaron Dailey
Allan Ou
Jack Meng
Roger Dong
