Fibre Channel & cinder.conf

Cinder includes a Fibre Channel zone manager facility for configuring zoning in Fibre Channel fabrics, specifically supporting Cisco and Brocade Fibre Channel switches. The user is required to configure the zoning parameters in the Cinder configuration file (cinder.conf). An example configuration using Brocade is given below:

zoning_mode=fabric

[fc-zone-manager]
fc_fabric_names=fabricA,fabricB
zoning_policy=initiator-target
brcd_sb_connector=cinder.zonemanager.drivers.brocade.brcd_fc_zone_client_cli.BrcdFCZoneClientCLI
fc_san_lookup_service=cinder.zonemanager.drivers.brocade.brcd_fc_san_lookup_service.BrcdFCSanLookupService
zone_driver=cinder.zonemanager.drivers.brocade.brcd_fc_zone_driver.BrcdFCZoneDriver

[fabricA]
fc_fabric_address=hostname
fc_fabric_user=username
fc_fabric_password=password
principal_switch_wwn=00:00:00:00:00:00:00:00

[fabricB]
fc_fabric_address=hostname
fc_fabric_user=username
fc_fabric_password=password
principal_switch_wwn=00:00:00:00:00:00:00:00

  • This option will need to be set in the DEFAULT configuration stanza and its value must be fabric.

  • Be sure that the name of the stanza matches one of the values given in the fc_fabric_names option in the fc-zone-manager configuration stanza.

  • Be sure that the name of the stanza matches the other value given in the fc_fabric_names option in the fc-zone-manager configuration stanza.