From: "Sandro Bonazzola" <sbonazzo(a)redhat.com>
To: devel(a)ovirt.org, "Tal Nisan" <tnisan(a)redhat.com>, "Allon
Mureinik" <amureini(a)redhat.com>, "Nir Soffer"
<nsoffer(a)redhat.com>
Cc: "Simone Tiraboschi" <stirabos(a)redhat.com>
Sent: Tuesday, December 16, 2014 10:56:58 AM
Subject: Re: [ovirt-devel] VDSM, FCoE and VirtIO
Il 15/12/2014 16:52, Simone Tiraboschi ha scritto:
> Hi,
> I'm writing cause I working on hosted-engine deploy over fiber channel.
> If possible, I'd like to try it for developing purposes in a nested
> environment.
> So I thought it would be possible to simulate a SAN with LIO and a vn2vn
> FCoE connection using a couple of VirtIO devices.
>
> I had some troubles using fcoeadm over VirtIO but than I found your patch
> about libhbalinux and libudev. I applied it and it works or at least it
> seams to.
> Here I tracked what I did:
>
http://www.ovirt.org/Features/Self_Hosted_Engine_FC_Support
>
> Now the problem is that VDSM sees the FCoE device but it reports as failed:
>
> 'pathstatus': [{'lun': '0',
> 'physdev': 'sda',
> 'state': 'failed',
> 'type': 'FCP'}],
>
> and I'm not sure if it's really an issue with VDSM or if it's something
> with my FCoE setup.
>
> Did someone ever used VDSM with FCoE?
Tal? Allon? Nir?
I never tried to use this setup, and I don't know if we support this.
Maybe Federico can help with this?
Nir