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October 23-26, 2017 - Prague, Czech Republic
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Wednesday, October 25 • 12:05 - 12:45
OMG, NPIV! Virtualizing Fibre Channel with Linux and KVM - Paolo Bonzini, Red Hat, Inc. & Hannes Reinecke, SUSE

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Fibre Channel is a widely deployed SAN technology. It does provide for a native virtualization support in the form of NPIV (N_Port Id Virtualisation). Unfortunately the Linux implementation, which presents the NPIV port as a SCSI Host, does not lend itself easily to virtualisation with QEMU. Currently QEMU can only forward individual PCI devices and block devices, but no easy way exists to specify how NPIV devices can or should be forwarded. Furthermore, all devices and possibly the partitions and filesystems therein are exposed to the host, which may cause security concerns. This talk will describe the possible solutions for FC virtualization at both the Linux and QEMU levels, and their relative advantages and disadvantages. A short introduction to FC concepts will be included, covering the protocol, HBA and operating system levels.

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Paolo Bonzini

Distinguished Engineer, Red Hat, Inc.
Paolo is a Distinguished Engineer at Red Hat and the upstream maintainer for both KVM and various subsystems in QEMU.  As a contributor to QEMU, through the years, he has worked on various parts of the project architecture, including the threading architecture, the test frameworks... Read More →
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Hannes Reinecke

Kernel Storage Architect, SUSE Labs
Studied Physics with main focus image processing in Heidelberg from 1990 until 1997, followed by a PhD in Edinburgh 's Heriot-Watt University in 2000. Worked as sysadmin during the studies, mainly in the Mathematical Institute in Heidelberg. Now working at SUSE Labs as Kernel Storage... Read More →


Wednesday October 25, 2017 12:05 - 12:45 CEST
Grand Ballroom