[libvirt-users] Oracle RAC in libvirt+KVM environment

Stefan Hajnoczi stefanha at gmail.com
Wed Aug 14 14:02:32 UTC 2013


On Wed, Aug 14, 2013 at 04:40:44PM +0800, Timon Wang wrote:
> I found a article about Hyper-V virtual Fiber Channel, I think this
> will make Failover Cluster work if KVM has the same feature.
> http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh831413.aspx
> 
> Hyper-V uses NPIV for virtual Fiber Channel, I have read some article
> about KVM NPIV, but how can I config it with libvirt? Any body can
> show me some example?

A web search turns up this:

https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/Fedora/18/html/Virtualization_Administration_Guide/sect-Technical_Papers-Identifying_HBAs_in_a_Host_System-Confirming_That_IO_Traffic_is_Going_through_an_NPIV_HBA.html

You can use this if the host has a supported Fibre Channel HBA and your
image is on a SAN LUN.

>From my limited knowledge about this, NPIV itself won't make clustering
possible.  RAC or Failure Cluster probably still require specific SCSI
commands in order to work (like persistent reservations) and that's what
needs to be investigated in order to figure out a solution.

Stefan




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