AoE block storage support ("small" nova changes)

Registered by Yacine Kheddache

Adding support for block storage attaching to hosts via AoE (ATA over Ethernet) SANs. This blueprint will be for the nova changes required to perform the attach/detach of the AoE / Coraid storage to a KVM VM.

The nova and cinder specification URL is :
https://blueprints.launchpad.net/cinder/+spec/coraid-volume-driver

This initiator driver is supported on all Linux initiators (released under GPL), ATA over Ethernet (AoE) Linux driver for all 3.x and 2.6 kernels is available here :
http://support.coraid.com/support/linux/
and
ftp://ftp.alyseo.com/pub/partners/Coraid/Drivers/Linux/

Blueprint information

Status:
Complete
Approver:
Vish Ishaya
Priority:
Low
Drafter:
Alyseo
Direction:
Approved
Assignee:
Jean-Baptiste RANSY
Definition:
Approved
Series goal:
Accepted for grizzly
Implementation:
Implemented
Milestone target:
milestone icon 2013.1
Started by
Yacine Kheddache
Completed by
Yacine Kheddache

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Feature freeze is coming soon. The code needs to be up for review ASAP to have any chance to make it into Grizzly. --Russell

Gerrit topic: https://review.openstack.org/#q,topic:bp/libvirt-aoe,n,z

Addressed by: https://review.openstack.org/21101
    Adding support for block storage attaching to hosts via AoE (ATA over Ethernet) SANs.

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