Pinging again since I was hoping for some community feedback. I also messed up a bit in my original mail, the current supported hardware transports are cxgb3i , cxgb4i (Chelsio), bnx2i (Broadcom/QLogic), qla4xxx (QLogic) and be2iscsi & ocs (Emulex). -Anish
> -----Original Message----- > From: Anish Bhatt [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Wednesday, July 23, 2014 9:53 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: [openstack-dev] [nova] Add support for hardware transports when > using open-iscsi > > Hi, > > Currently, the implementation that uses open-iscsi to log in to iscsi targets > does not support the use of hardware transports (currently bnx2i, cxgb3i & > cxgb4i are supported by open-iscsi) > > The only change would be adding a -I <transport_iface_file> parameter to > the standard login/discovery command when the requisite hardware is > available. The transport iface files can be generated via iscsiadm itself. No > other commands would change at all. The default value is -I tcp, which as the > same as not giving the -I parameter. > As far as I can see, all changes would be localized to the following nova > files : > > nova/virt/libvirt/volume.py > nova/cmd/baremetal_deploy_helper.py > nova/tests/virt/libvirt/test_volume.py > > Would this be a useful addition to openstack ? > > Thanks, > Anish > _______________________________________________ > OpenStack-dev mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-dev _______________________________________________ OpenStack-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-dev
