Xen virtualization with SAN and EVA

[Yaboto]

Hi,

I create some virtual servers with XEN Virt-Manager. Now I want to configure each virtual server to access the EVA Storage through the SAN.
Please, What are the procedures?

Regards,

[Steven E. Protter]

Shalom,

Disk and LUNs are prepared on the host operating system and then presented to the guest.

Depending on hardware, fiber access is possible from the guest.

Documents on the topic:
http://docs.hp.com/en/4AA1-4405ENW/4AA1-4405ENW.pdf

https://listman.redhat.com/docs/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/5.4/html/Virtualization_Guide/go01.html

http://www.digitalhermit.com/linux/xen/

SEP

[Yaboto]

Is it possible to share or assign a fiber channel card to a RHEL5 Xen guest ?

[Tim Nelson]

something like this in the vm.cfg file will get the VMguest direct access to the device

disk = ['phy:/dev/mapper/disk-data-1,xvda,w',]

read the docs for more info...

[Yaboto]

Thanks for your contributions.

I could not find vm.cfg.

I am using XEN.
In which configuration file can I add a new external storage LUN or partition to a virtual server ?

[Tim Nelson]

I am using Oracle VM ...varies by flavor.
/OVS/running_pool/vm_name/vm.cfg

or perhaps

/etc/xen/vm_name

list of VMs can be found by "xm list"

[Yaboto]

ok thanks, I would try again and get back to you !