sun
microsystems Systems Architecture Committee
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Subject: N_Port_ID Virtualization for Solaris
Submitted by: Aaron Dailey
File: PSARC/2007/501/opinion.ms
Date: February 20th, 2008.
Committee: Mark Carlson (opinion written by Garrett
D'Amore), Kais Belgaied.
Product Approval Committee:
Solaris PAC
solaris-pac-opinion at sun.com
1. Summary
N_Port_ID Virtualization (NPIV) allows one Fibre Channel
port to represent many physical ports, thus virtualizing the
hardware. NPIV is especially useful for virtual machine
environments.
2. Decision & Precedence Information
The project is approved as specified in reference [1].
The project may be delivered in a minor release of the ON
consolidation.
3. Interfaces
The project exports the following interfaces.
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| Interfaces Exported |
|______________________|_________________|__________________________________|
|Interface | Classification | Comments |
|______________________|_________________|__________________________________|
|FCA | Project Private| Specified in [2]. |
|HBA-API extensions | Project Private| Specified in [3]. |
|fcadm command line | Committed | See [4]. |
|fcadm output | Uncommitted | See [4]. |
|fcinfo output | Uncommitted | See [4]. |
|fcadm SCF | Project Private| Storage for NPIV WWWN. |
|xenstore | Volatile | Changes for existen Xen database|
|______________________|_________________|__________________________________|
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| Interfaces Exported |
|______________________|_________________|__________________________________|
|Interface | Classification | Comments |
|______________________|_________________|__________________________________|
|xm input/output | Volatile | Xen CLI |
|/usr/lib/xennpivd file| Project Private| Xen reconfiguration daemon |
|xnpivd file | Project Private| Xen reconfiguration driver |
|______________________|_________________|__________________________________|
The project imports the following interfaces.
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| Interfaces Imported |
|________________|________________|________________________|
|Interface | Classification| Comments |
|________________|________________|________________________|
|T11 NPIV Specs | Standard | From the T11 web site.|
|libhbaaapi(3LIB)| Standard | Derived from T11 FC-MI|
|________________|________________|________________________|
4. Opinion
No issues were raised for the project team at commitment
review.
5. Minority Opinion(s)
None.
6. Advisory Information
None.
7. Appendices
7.1. Appendix A: Technical Changes Required
None.
7.2. Appendix B: Technical Changes Advised
None.
7.3. Appendix C: Reference Material
Unless stated otherwise, path names are relative to the case
directory PSARC/2007/501.
1 Functional specifcation.
File: commitment.materials/NPIV_Func_spec.pdf
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2 FCA Interface Changs to Support NPIV.
File: commitment.materials/NPIV_FCA_Interface_Doc-
0.2.1.pdf
3 fcinfo, fcadm manual page with changes.
File: commitment.materials/fcinfo.man
4 PSARC 20 Questions.
File: commitment.materials/psarc_20q_npiv
5 npivxend manual page.
File: commitment.materials/npivxend.man
6 xenstore manual page.
File: commitment.materials/xenstore.man
7 xm manual page.
File: commitment.materials/xm.man
8 Issues file.
File: issues
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