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This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported
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http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/legalcode
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===================================================
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Brocade Cinder Zone Driver - Virtual Fabric Support
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===================================================
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https://blueprints.launchpad.net/cinder/+spec/brocade-zone-driver-virtualfabrics-support
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Introduce Virtual Fabric (VF) support for Brocade FC SAN Switches.
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Problem description
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As of Juno, there is no support for zone management in Brocade Virtual Fabrics
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thus preventing the administrator to add this automated zone access control
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in Brocade Virtual Fabrics (VF) environment.
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Use Cases
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This addresses the case where an end user had the Brocade Virtual Fabrics
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feature enabled on the FC fabric and zoning needs to be performed in a VF
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other than the default. The impact of this feature is on end users who now
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may configure the Virtual Fabric ID in the cinder.conf file for each Brocade
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FC fabric block.
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Proposed change
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===============
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A Brocade FC switch(fixed/modular) can be partitioned into multiple virtual
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switches. A unique ID called VFID(Virtual Fabric ID) is assigned to each
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virtual switch and all the configurations, including zones, happen within
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the context of this VFID. User can configure a particular VFID to be
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'default' which will be the default context for when users login to the
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switch.
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As of Juno, the Brocade Zone Driver and look-up service does not set the
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VF context while establishing a session to the switch because of which it
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has access only to the zones in the 'default' VFID.
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The proposal is to enhance the driver and look-up service to set the VFID
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context to support any virtual fabric configured in the chassis.
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A new 'fc_virtual_fabric_id' config option is added to zoning fabrics
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configuration options as follows:
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**fc_virtual_fabric_id** (StrOpt) VFID of virtual fabric. Default value
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is 'None'.
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The zone driver and look-up service will read the fabric configuration
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and extract the VFID to read/apply the configurations on the specific
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virtual fabric.
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Multiple Virtual Fabrics Support:
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Cinder already has support for configuring multiple fabrics. In this
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release, we are adding the support to configure multiple **virtual fabrics**.
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Configuring multiple virtual fabrics is similar to configuring regular
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fabrics. In case of a virtual fabric, the cinder admin will configure
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**fc_virtual_fabric_id** config option in addition to all other fabric
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configuration options.
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On volume attach/detach, the fibre channel volume driver will use SAN lookup
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service to traverse through the fabrics configured in cinder.conf to identify
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the targets connected to a host and returns a map of initiator and target port
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WWNs for each fabric.
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Sample map object returned by the look up service:
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{
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<Fabric1>: {
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'initiator_port_wwn_list':
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('200000051e55a100', '200000051e55a121'..)
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'target_port_wwn_list':
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('100000051e55a100', '100000051e55a121'..)
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}
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<Virtual_Fabric_2>: {
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'initiator_port_wwn_list':
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('300000051e55a100', '300000051e55a121'..)
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'target_port_wwn_list':
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('400000051e55a100', '400000051e55a121'..)
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}
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}
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The volume driver will process this information to extract initiator and
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target map for each fabric and builds a new initiator_target_map object.
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Sample initiator_target_map object:
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{
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'host WWPN 1': ['target WWPN 1', 'target WWPN 2']
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'host WWPN 2': ['target WWPN 3', 'target WWPN 4']
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}
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The zone manager will be provided with the above map of initiator and it's
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corresponding target port WWNs by the volume driver to create/delete zones.
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Alternatives
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None.
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Data model impact
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-----------------
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None.
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REST API impact
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None.
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Security impact
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---------------
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Zoning enforces ACL in SAN. Zoning is same in either regular or virtual
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fabrics. There are no specific security impacts with respect to virtual
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fabrics.
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Notifications impact
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None.
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Other end user impact
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None.
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Performance Impact
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None.
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Other deployer impact
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Configuration of virtual fabric requires providing the **fc_virtual_fabric_id**
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config option with valid virtual fabric VF ID in zoning fabric configuration.
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Developer impact
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Volume drivers will NOT have to be modified to support virtual fabric.
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Implementation
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Assignee(s)
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Primary assignee:
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Prakash Kaligotla
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Other contributors:
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Nagendra Rao Jaladanki
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Angela Smith
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Work Items
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- Enhance the Brocade look-up service to find host and targets connected
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to a VF.
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- Enhance the Brocade Zone Driver to execute commands in the context of
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a VFID.
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- Unit test the zone driver and look-up service.
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Dependencies
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============
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None.
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Testing
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Unit tests will be performed to make sure all CRUD operations are
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successful on virtual and physical SAN fabrics.
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Documentation Impact
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====================
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Configuration details of **fc_virtual_fabric_id** config option will be added
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to the fabric zoning configuration of Brocade Fibre Channel Zone Driver.
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References
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==========
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http://www.brocade.com/downloads/documents/html_product_manuals/FOS_730_CLI/wwhelp/wwhimpl/js/html/wwhelp.htm#href=Title.Fabric_OS.html
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