[PVE-User] Fibre Channel Network Storage support

[Patrice Levesque]

Hi.

An opportunity knocked where I could get my hands on a Compellent SAN
with a Fibre Channel interface.

Proxmox VE's Wiki¹ does not indicate that Fibre Channel is supported via
the web interface, but I wonder if I can setup FC nonetheless via CLI,
and if so, once done, create/resize disk images on that SAN from
Proxmox, perform live migrations, take snapshots, etc, like I'm
currently doing with an iSCSI SAN attached to four Proxmox VE hosts.

While I'm at it, the FC PCI cards I'd be using would be QLogic (PCI IDs
1077:2432 and 1077:2532), via the qla2xxx kernel module. Anyone has
positive/negative reviews about them?


Thanks,



1) https://pve.proxmox.com/wiki/Storage_Model

[Paul Gray]

Post by Patrice Levesque
Hi.
An opportunity knocked where I could get my hands on a Compellent
SAN with a Fibre Channel interface.
Proxmox VE's Wiki¹ does not indicate that Fibre Channel is
supported via the web interface, but I wonder if I can setup FC
nonetheless via CLI, and if so, once done, create/resize disk
images on that SAN from Proxmox, perform live migrations, take
snapshots, etc, like I'm currently doing with an iSCSI SAN attached
to four Proxmox VE hosts.
While I'm at it, the FC PCI cards I'd be using would be QLogic (PCI
IDs 1077:2432 and 1077:2532), via the qla2xxx kernel module. Anyone
has positive/negative reviews about them?

FC disks are viewed as local disks. Nothing special required.

QLogic cards are solid performers.

- -PG

[Patrice Levesque]

Post by Paul Gray

Post by Patrice Levesque
Proxmox VE's Wiki¹ does not indicate that Fibre Channel is supported
via the web interface, but I wonder if I can setup FC nonetheless via
CLI [
]

FC disks are viewed as local disks. Nothing special required.

Thanks for the quick answer. I just want to make sure I correctly
understand what you mean by “local disks”: does that mean I'd also be
able to store OpenVZ containers on the FC SAN and perform live migration
across servers attached to it, or would I still restricted to KVM for
live migrations?

[Patrice Levesque]

Hi,

Post by Paul Gray
FC disks are viewed as local disks. Nothing special required.

[
] does that mean I'd also be able to store OpenVZ containers on the
FC SAN and perform live migration across servers attached to it, or
would I still restricted to KVM for live migrations?

Sorry for insisting, but can anyone on the list using Fibre Channel
confirm successful KVM and/or OpenVZ live migrations? I wouldn't want to
be stuck with hardware I can't use at all with Proxmox.


Thanks,

[Michael Gusek]

Hi Patrice,

in my old job, they are using a FC-NetApp. The LUN's was showing as
normal local disk, with cLVM on top. With this, there was no problem
with live migrating.

Hope this helps you,

Michael

Post by Patrice Levesque
Hi,

Post by Paul Gray
FC disks are viewed as local disks. Nothing special required.

[…] does that mean I'd also be able to store OpenVZ containers on the
FC SAN and perform live migration across servers attached to it, or
would I still restricted to KVM for live migrations?

Sorry for insisting, but can anyone on the list using Fibre Channel
confirm successful KVM and/or OpenVZ live migrations? I wouldn't want to
be stuck with hardware I can't use at all with Proxmox.
Thanks,
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[Patrice Levesque]

Post by Michael Gusek
in my old job, they are using a FC-NetApp. The LUN's was showing as
normal local disk, with cLVM on top. With this, there was no problem
with live migrating.

Thanks, I really do appreciate.