SAN Installation

[RightVision]

Hello,
first - for version 0.9 very good job .

After testing with local drives we wanted to test with a SAN disk on an IBM Blade, as Blades have two drives at maximum. The debug code says that the Firmware Image is unavailable (qla2xxx-ISP2312). Is there any chance to load additional drivers from diskette during the startup?

 

[RightVision]

More Info

Did some tests in debug mode....

lspci
QLogic Corp. ISP2312 2GB FC HBA (rev 02)

insmod
qla2xxx Unknow symbol release_firmware
qla2xxx Unknow symbol fc_attach_transport
....
indmod cannont insert qla2xxx.ko

modprobe qla2xxx
qla2xxx ... Found ISP2312
....
qla2xxx ... Verifying loaded RISC code...
qla2xxx ... Firmware image unavailable
qla2xxx ... Failed to initialize

When I search through the web, it seems like a well known DEBIAN problem. Same hardware is running VMware ESX 3.5 fine....

 

[dietmar]

We have no such system here, so I cant test/implement that - sorry.

I found an interesting link:
http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Boot_From_SAN

But if you want that you need to modify/compile the kernel yourself (or somebody sends us such system to test with).

- Dietmar

 

[RightVision]

Managed a SAN-Boot now with the new 0.92 Beta version and a changed SAN adapter (now EMULEX).
Question is now, if there's a plan to integrate shared storage (such as GFS) to put all VZs in a common place.

 

[martin]

Managed a SAN-Boot now with the new 0.92 Beta version and a changed SAN adapter (now EMULEX).
Question is now, if there's a plan to integrate shared storage (such as GFS) to put all VZs in a common place.

see http://pve.proxmox.com/wiki/Roadmap