Fibre Channel SAN connectivity.

[elias2k1]

Does Proxmox VE support Fibre Channel SANs via HBA passthroughs?

 

[pahanijulmu]

Do you mean passing FC to VM or if Proxmox supports FC?

 

[elias2k1]

Do you mean passing FC to VM or if Proxmox supports FC?

Both. Actually, we are planning to connect SAN with FC protocol and also attach those LUN to VM by passthrough. It is possible in VMware and Hyper-V. But is it possible in Proxmox VE?

 

[elias2k1]

Is there anyone to help me by providing the information?

 

[iwik]

Is there anyone to help me by providing the information?

You can do it by disk passthrough (cli). https://pve.proxmox.com/wiki/Passthrough_Physical_Disk_to_Virtual_Machine_(VM). Since FC SAN devices usually have multiple paths, you have to configure multi path https://pve.proxmox.com/wiki/Multipath#Set_up_multipath-tools and then pass to vm this dm device. So it is possible, but no GUI, pure linux way

EDIT: So yes, but there is huge space for improvement. It makes sense to have this in gui and then propagated to each node in cluster. But FC support in PVE is nealy none...

 

[pahanijulmu]

We are running Dell Powerstore with proxmox cluster and shared storage (LVM). Work fine, like iwik said setup needs to be done in CLI which took some learning to add new stores and expand them.

 

[LnxBil]

Does Proxmox VE support Fibre Channel SANs via HBA passthroughs?

Not via the UI. QEMU claims support for it via NPIV, yet I could not get it to work when I tried it years ago, that may have changed.