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Re: Xen virtualization with SAN and EVA

 
Yaboto
Super Advisor

Xen virtualization with SAN and EVA

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,
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Steven E. Protter
Exalted Contributor

Re: Xen virtualization with SAN and EVA

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/

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Yaboto
Super Advisor

Re: Xen virtualization with SAN and EVA


Is it possible to share or assign a fiber channel card to a RHEL5 Xen guest ?
Tim Nelson
Honored Contributor

Re: Xen virtualization with SAN and EVA

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
Super Advisor

Re: Xen virtualization with SAN and EVA


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
Honored Contributor

Re: Xen virtualization with SAN and EVA

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
Super Advisor

Re: Xen virtualization with SAN and EVA

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