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Re: [Xen-devel] Our pvSCSI split driver worked well on NPIV environment

To: Aaron.Dailey@xxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] Our pvSCSI split driver worked well on NPIV environment
From: Jun Kamada <kama@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 18 Sep 2007 19:38:17 +0900
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Hi Aaron-san,

Thank you for your interests to our pvSCSI split driver. We believe
that there are a lot of situations guest domain would like to issue
SCSI command.

In the near future, we will post the new version of pvSCSI driver
described below.

- Integrate source code of pure SCSI functions and FC transport layer
  functions
- Support reset function
- And fix some bugs


Thanks

kama@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx


On Tue, 18 Sep 2007 13:20:47 +0800
Aaron Dailey <Aaron.Dailey@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> Kamada-san and all,
> 
> We're also working on an NPIV driver for Solaris xVM (see
> http://www.news.com/8301-13580_3-9778296-39.html for what xVM means).
> 
> I've looked at the pvSCSI split driver, and I think it's valuable for
> both NPIV FibreChannel and standard SCSI environments. Especially with
> NPIV though it will become valuable because we can dedicate one virtual
> HBA to a DOMU, and use those devices as SCSI devices.
> 
> I see it as especially valuable for tape, but also for non standard SCSI
> devices. Also some users may want to use it for disk instead of using
> the block driver. For example, in Solaris, we can control write cache on
> disk drives differently depending on SCSI status, information which
> would be unavailable via block interface.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Aaron




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