<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=us-ascii"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div>Jon:</div><div><br></div><div>There are several people from Dell that are active in the OpenStack community, they're probably good points of contact to engage with Dell on this issue. Two names I know of offhand are:</div><div><br></div><div>- Stephen Spector</div><div>- Rob Hirschfeld</div><div><br></div><div apple-content-edited="true"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-size: medium; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-size: medium; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div>Take care,</div><div><br></div><div>Lorin</div><div>--</div><div>Lorin Hochstein</div><div>Lead Architect - Cloud Services</div><div>Nimbis Services, Inc.</div><div><a href="https://www.nimbisservices.com/">www.nimbisservices.com</a></div><div><br></div></div></span></div></span></div><br><div><div>On Jul 28, 2012, at 9:44 PM, Jonathan Proulx <<a href="mailto:jon@jonproulx.com">jon@jonproulx.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite">It does look like nova/volume/san.py could be extended to use the<br>EqlCliExec.py utility from the Equallogic SDK, unfortunately all the<br>pieces of the SDK are full of this copyright:<br><br>Copyright (C) 2009 by Dell, Inc.<br><br>All rights reserved. This software may not be copied, disclosed,<br>transferred, or used except in accordance with a license granted<br>by Dell, Inc. This software embodies proprietary information<br>and trade secrets of Dell, Inc<br><br>So unless we can talk Dell into being more sane with licensing, full<br>and proper integration with OpenStack is unlikely.<br><br>-Jon<br><br>On Sat, Jul 28, 2012 at 6:35 PM, Jonathan Proulx <<a href="mailto:jon@jonproulx.com">jon@jonproulx.com</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote type="cite">Hi Tom,<br><br>Hopefully someone has a better answer for you as I'm still relatively<br>new to OpenStack myself, but I looked into this a little while ago<br>because I too have an Equalogic SAN and KVM hypervisors. The<br>Equalogic connector in that equation is provided by XenServer not<br>OpenStack (in fact I think but am less sure that it isn't even part of<br>the opensource xen).<br><br>Since I'm running a research system I can take some risks and have<br>decided to go this Ceph for my storage needs, if I were in your HA<br>needing shoes I'd look at how much coding was required to hook<br>Equalogic's API (which exists but I haven't looked at in years) into<br>the nova-volume service, you could be someone's hero, but I don't<br>think there's any current work toward this.<br><br>I'd be happy to be told I'm wrong about that...<br><br>-Jon<br><br>On Fri, Jul 27, 2012 at 3:13 PM, Thomas Vachon <<a href="mailto:vachon@sessionm.com">vachon@sessionm.com</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote type="cite">Hi All,<br><br>We are architecting our system for KVM (as it is the best hypervisor for<br>your money for HA networking) and a SAN for HA nova-volumes. The only<br>reference to being able to use a SAN is with XenServer as the hypervisor. I<br>have no problem giving a server permission to create luns (or pre-creating<br>them if I have to) for now. I want to make sure I can point all the stuff<br>to the SAN instead of doing some half-hearted attempt by using a box as a<br>proxy.<br><br>Our san is an EQL so iSCSI is easy. Also, we run our "san" net on a<br>separate 10Gbe set of interfaces (all the servers have connectivity into the<br>SAN layer).<br><br>Any thoughts?<br><br>--<br>Thomas Vachon<br>Principal Operations Architect<br>session M<br><br><br>_______________________________________________<br>OpenStack-operators mailing list<br><a href="mailto:OpenStack-operators@lists.openstack.org">OpenStack-operators@lists.openstack.org</a><br>http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-operators<br><br></blockquote></blockquote><br>_______________________________________________<br>OpenStack-operators mailing list<br><a href="mailto:OpenStack-operators@lists.openstack.org">OpenStack-operators@lists.openstack.org</a><br>http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-operators<br></blockquote></div><br></body></html>