[Openstack] SAN and Fibrechannel with OpenStack

Wolfgang Hennerbichler wolfgang.hennerbichler at risc-software.at
Tue May 22 07:44:33 UTC 2012


Thank you for your answer,

I am not saying that I need a clustered filesystem, with clvm I just 
have all lvm-volumes available on all machines, but only one machine 
would attach to the filesystem of a specific LV at a time.

On 05/17/2012 05:07 AM, Narayan Desai wrote:
> I'm not sure that it would be particularly easy to make nova-volume
> support clustered filesystems; the current model only supports
> attaching a volume to a single instance at a time. Aside from that, it
> shouldn't be too hard to use fc as the data path instead of iscsi.
> We're looking at using iSER in a similar capacity.
>   -nld
>
> On Wed, May 16, 2012 at 4:05 AM, Wolfgang Hennerbichler
> <wolfgang.hennerbichler at risc-software.at>  wrote:
>> dear openstack godfathers;
>>
>> I do plan to migrate from crappy vmware and some ibm based cloud stack to
>> openstack and kvm. here's the thing: I am lucky enough to have decent
>> hardware, all the compute nodes are interconnected via fibre channel.
>> so I don't want and don't need  iscsi. do you think I can make it with
>> something like clvm? I read through the docs of openstack, but I am not
>> really sure now if I can make clvm fly without hacking around in openstack
>> (and nova-volume) too much, especially when it comes to live migration and
>> so on...
>>
>> I realize OpenStack was not built for SAN and FC, but I would really like to
>> hear your opinions on that.
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Wolfgang
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