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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:anish at chelsio.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, July 23, 2014 9:53 PM
> To: openstack-dev at lists.openstack.org
> 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
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