[Openstack] SAN and Fibrechannel with OpenStack
Wolfgang Hennerbichler
wolfgang.hennerbichler at risc-software.at
Tue May 22 07:51:22 UTC 2012
Hi Diego,
Thanks for your answer. I will definitely give openstack a try. Not only
a try, I will try to make it work.
Wolfgang
On 05/17/2012 09:40 AM, Diego Parrilla SantamarĂa wrote:
> Hi Wolfgang,
>
> latest versions of our distro supports NFS as backend storage for
> instances, volumes and images. Basically a zone shares the same NFS
> mountpoint for instances and another mountpoint for volumes, and I guess
> it does not differ a lot from what you want to do with FC or iSCSI.
>
> It's in our immediate roadmap to use FC and iSCSI instead of NFS, but
> may be you can give a try to our NFS stuff until then ;-)
>
> Cheers
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> On Wed, May 16, 2012 at 11:05 AM, Wolfgang Hennerbichler
> <wolfgang.hennerbichler at risc-software.at
> <mailto: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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