We are trying to verify this. The current version of xCAT has limited support for SCSI/FCP devices. We plan to add more support in later releases. It basically does most of the tailoring in autoyast/kickstart during the provision phase. If there is an existing VM that you want to config SCSI devices for, it does most of the tailoring on the Linux filesystem, editing /etc/zfcp.conf and such files and echoing the WWPN and LUN through into udev.
I do not see a problem (yet) with using NPIV, since most of the configuration is done on the FCP channel(s). Regards, ------------------------------------- Thang Pham IBM Poughkeepsie Phone: (845) 433-7567 e-mail: [email protected] From: "Will, Chris" <[email protected]> To: xCAT Users Mailing list <[email protected]>, Date: 04/23/2013 12:33 PM Subject: Re: [xcat-user] How does xCAT deal with NPIV provisioned LUNs? Here is what I mean. Here are two guests on our vmax npiv array. slx111cln1:~ # lszfcp -D 0.0.0400/0x50000972081ca531/0x0000000000000000 0:0:0:0 slxosdev2:~ # lszfcp -D 0.0.0400/0x50000972081ca531/0x0000000000000000 0:0:1:0 With NPIV, the wwpn and LUN that the guest “sees” are the same. From: Thang Pham [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Tuesday, April 23, 2013 11:04 AM To: xCAT Users Mailing list Cc: xCAT Users Mailing list Subject: Re: [xcat-user] How does xCAT deal with NPIV provisioned LUNs? I do not see any problem with this. A unique disk is determined by a combination of LUN and WWPN. As long as those values are specified as 16 byte characters, you should be good. Regards, ------------------------------------- Thang Pham IBM Poughkeepsie Phone: (845) 433-7567 e-mail: [email protected] Inactive hide details for "Will, Chris" ---04/23/2013 11:01:26 AM---We have implemented NPIV with our EMC storage array. It lo"Will, Chris" ---04/23/2013 11:01:26 AM---We have implemented NPIV with our EMC storage array. It looks like xCAT is maintaining a pool of zf From: "Will, Chris" <[email protected]> To: xCAT Users Mailing list <[email protected]>, Date: 04/23/2013 11:01 AM Subject: [xcat-user] How does xCAT deal with NPIV provisioned LUNs? We have implemented NPIV with our EMC storage array. It looks like xCAT is maintaining a pool of zfcp devices but all of our servers have their LUN addressing staring at “0000”. Is this a problem with implementing zfcp with xCAT? Chris Will The information contained in this communication is highly confidential and is intended solely for the use of the individual(s) to whom this communication is directed. If you are not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any viewing, copying, disclosure or distribution of this information is prohibited. Please notify the sender, by electronic mail or telephone, of any unintended receipt and delete the original message without making any copies. Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan and Blue Care Network of Michigan are nonprofit corporations and independent licensees of the Blue Cross and Blue Shield Association. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Try New Relic Now & We'll Send You this Cool Shirt New Relic is the only SaaS-based application performance monitoring service that delivers powerful full stack analytics. Optimize and monitor your browser, app, & servers with just a few lines of code. Try New Relic and get this awesome Nerd Life shirt! http://p.sf.net/sfu/newrelic_d2d_apr _______________________________________________ xCAT-user mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/xcat-user The information contained in this communication is highly confidential and is intended solely for the use of the individual(s) to whom this communication is directed. If you are not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any viewing, copying, disclosure or distribution of this information is prohibited. Please notify the sender, by electronic mail or telephone, of any unintended receipt and delete the original message without making any copies. Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan and Blue Care Network of Michigan are nonprofit corporations and independent licensees of the Blue Cross and Blue Shield Association. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Try New Relic Now & We'll Send You this Cool Shirt New Relic is the only SaaS-based application performance monitoring service that delivers powerful full stack analytics. Optimize and monitor your browser, app, & servers with just a few lines of code. Try New Relic and get this awesome Nerd Life shirt! http://p.sf.net/sfu/newrelic_d2d_apr _______________________________________________ xCAT-user mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/xcat-user
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