Re: [zones-discuss] Zones and NPIV

2007-12-05 Thread Aaron Dailey
Steve Lawrence wrote: We working on having the virtual HBA's WWN automatically assigned - either using a random number or using a range of WWN available from the HBA's base WWN. This will alleviate typing long strings of digits. Just to clarify, the generated virtual wwn number would be

Re: [zones-discuss] Zones and NPIV

2007-12-03 Thread Aaron J. Dailey
I work with Jack, and wanted to follow up to the community about our latest thoughts: In answer to Mike Gerdts' query, we will allow an NPIV WWN to follow a non global zone from one box to another. One caveat is that the user will have to intervene to bind the virtual NPIV port to a new

Re: [zones-discuss] Zones and NPIV

2007-11-08 Thread Edward Pilatowicz
jey jack, interesting idea. i'm not really familiar with NPIV, but i can make some general comments based on your examples below. first off, doing a zonecfg should not change the state of the machine, allocate resources etc. all zonecfg can do is update the zone xml configuration file and

Re: [zones-discuss] Zones and NPIV

2007-11-03 Thread Mike Gerdts
On 11/3/07, Ran Jack Meng [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Any comment on the idea and the prototype? I love the idea. I had assumed that I would have to implement LDOMs to get this level of integration with NPIV. The key thing that I would be looking for is that I can detach a zone from one box and

[zones-discuss] Zones and NPIV

2007-11-02 Thread Ran Jack Meng
Hi Folks, I'm an engineer working on the NPIV project, http://opensolaris.org/os/project/npiv/, which is a method for virtualizing a FibreChannel Port. It is considered useful in virtual environment as Xen and Logical Domain as each virtual system could have its own FC N_PORT_ID and storages