[libvirt] [PATCH 0/1] NPIV support

[Daniel P. Berrange]

On Tue, Apr 07, 2009 at 05:16:30PM -0400, David Allan wrote:
> 
> This patch implements NPIV support.  I don't have easy access to an
> NPIV capable switch at the moment, so this is all untested code at
> least from the perspective of whether it actually creates and deletes
> virtual adapters, but I thought I should get it out to the list for
> comment sooner rather than later.  I'll have a switch shortly.  If
> anybody has an NPIV capable test SAN and wants to test it as well, I'd
> much appreciate the feedback.  
> 
> Note that libvirt doesn't do any sanity checking of the WWPN/WWNN.  It
> expects the kernel to verify that the names are valid and the calling
> application to verify that the names are appropriate for the fabric.


I've just thought of one other aspect of this. Not all SCSI HBAs
have the ability to create/delete NPIV vHBAs. So we likely want to
extend the virNodeDevicePtr  XML format to add a feature flag 
indicating whether NPIV is supported for each HBA that is reported.
Also since crating new vHBAs will also result in new virNodeDevicePtr
appearing, we likely want to also add a flag indicating that a
particular HBA is a virtual one & thus deletable. 

Daniel
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