On 2012年11月20日 09:36, Zou, Yi wrote:
On 2012年11月19日 17:30, Osier Yang wrote:
Hi,
This proposal is trying to figure out a solution for migration
of domain which uses LUN behind vHBA as disk device (QEMU
emulated disk only at this stage). And other related NPIV
improvements which are not related with migration. I'm not
luck to get a environment to test if the thoughts are workable,
but I'd like see if guys have good idea/suggestions earlier.
Glad to see this topic on the list.
1) Persistent vHBA support
This is the useful stuff missed for long time. Assuming
that one created a vHBA, did masking/zoning, everything works
as expected. However, after a system rebooting, everything is
just lost. If the user wants to get things back, he has to
find out the preivous WWNN& WWPN, and create the vHBA again.
On the other hand, Persistent vHBA support is actually required
for domain which uses LUN behind a vHBA. Othewise the domain
could fail to start after a system rebooting.
To support the persistent vHBA, new APIs like virNodeDeviceDefineXML,
virNodeDeviceUndefine is required. Also it's useful to introduce
"autostart" for vHBA, so that the vHBA could be started automatically
after system rebooting.
Proposed APIs:
virNodeDevicePtr
virNodeDeviceDefineXML(virConnectPtr conn,
const char *xml,
unsigned int flags);
int
virNodeDeviceUndefine(virConnectPtr conn,
virNodeDevicePtr dev,
unsigned int flags);
int
virNodeDeviceSetAutostart(virNodeDevicePtr dev,
int autostart,
unsigned int flags);
int
virNodeDeviceGetAutostart(virNodeDevicePtr dev,
int *autostart,
unsigned int flags);
One API missed is:
int
virNodeDeviceCreate(virNodeDevicePtr dev,
unsigned int flags);
To create the vHBA.
2) Associate vHBA with domain XML
There are two ways to attach a LUN to a domain: as an QEMU emulated
device; or passthrough. Since passthrough a LUN is not supported in
libvirt yet, let's focus on the emulated LUN at this stage.
New attributes "wwnn" and "wwpn" are introduced to indicate the
LUN behind the vHBA. E.g.
<disk type='block' device='disk'>
<driver name='qemu' type='raw'/>
<source wwnn="2001001b32a9da4e" wwpn="2101001b32a90004"/>
<target dev='vda' bus='virtio'/>
<address type='pci' domain='0x0000' bus='0x00' slot='0x07' function='0x0'/>
</disk>
Before the domain starting, we have to check if there is LUN
assigned to the vHBA, error out if not.
Using the stable path of LUN also works, e.g.
<source dev="/dev/disk/by-path/pci-0000\:00\:07.0-scsi-0\:0\:0\:0"/>
But the disadvantage is the user have to figure out the stable
path himself; And we have to do checking of every stable path to
see if it's behind a vHBA in migration "Begin" stage. Or an new
XML tag for element "source" to indicate that it's behind a vHBA?
such as:
<source dev="disk-by-path" model="vport"/>
3) Migration with vHBA
One possible solution for migration with vHBA is to use one pair
of WWNN& WWPN on source host, one is using for domain, one is
reserved for migration purpose. It requires the storage admin maps
the same LUN to the two vHBAs when doing the masking and zoning.
Is WWNN part of the migration? I mean, isn't WWNN normally associated
w/ the underlying real vendor HBA and to have that also means the target
of your migration has to match up that WWNN?
No, it doesn't have to match the WWNN of HBA.
Please look through the threads for the currrent agreement, it's much
different with this proposal.
Regards,
Osier
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