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Configure Fibre Channel networking for SAP HANA on SUSE KVM

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Configure Fibre Channel networking for SAP HANA on SUSE KVM by assigning physical HBA ports to VMs as PCI devices. Set up redundant FCP connections using two physical ports attached to different fabric switches.

Note The following steps are only required if FCP is used as storage protocol. IF NFS is used, these steps are not needed.
About this task

Since no SR-IOV equivalent feature exists for FCP, assign the physical HBA ports directly to the VM. Use two physical ports attached to different fabrics for redundancy.

Note A physical port can only be assigned to one VM.
Steps

  1. Start virt-manager:

    kvm hana image2

  2. Open the desired VM.
    kvm hana image3

  3. Select Add Hardware.

    Virtmanager Add Hardware

  4. Choose the desired HBA port from the list of PCI Host Device and press finish.

    In this example 0000.A2:00:0.

    kvm hana image9

  5. Choose the desired HBA port from the list of PCI Host Device belonging to the second fabric and press finish. In this example 0000.A2:00:1.

    kvm hana image10

  6. Afterwards the physical HBA ports are assigned to the VM and the VM can be started.

    kvm hana image11

    Physical ports are passed through to the VM, so no additional preparation is required within the VM.

What's next?

After you've configured Fibre Channel networking, configure NetApp storage for SAP HANA.