[ovirt-devel] VDSM, FCoE and VirtIO

[Nir Soffer]

----- Original Message -----
> From: "Sandro Bonazzola" <sbonazzo at redhat.com>
> To: devel at ovirt.org, "Tal Nisan" <tnisan at redhat.com>, "Allon Mureinik" <amureini at redhat.com>, "Nir Soffer"
> <nsoffer at redhat.com>
> Cc: "Simone Tiraboschi" <stirabos at 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