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Feature #4509

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Additional SCSI Controller with per-disk configuration

Added by Chris Pisano over 10 years ago. Updated over 6 years ago.

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Closed
Priority:
Normal
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Compute resources - VMware
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Description

It would be useful if there was the option to add an additional SCSI controller when provisioning a new host or creating a compute resource. Sometimes we need to add multiple disks and they need to have a different type of SCSI controller.


Related issues 5 (0 open5 closed)

Related to Foreman - Feature #3496: SCSI Controller type selection for vSphereClosedMartin Matuška10/25/2013Actions
Related to Foreman - Feature #1946: Addition VMWare options required for VM creationResolved11/15/2012Actions
Related to Foreman - Bug #7803: Cannot provision vsphere vm with 8 or more disksClosedTimo Goebel10/03/2014Actions
Related to Foreman - Feature #19325: Adding VMware vSphere SCSI Controller ID Selection to volumesClosed04/20/2017Actions
Related to Foreman - Bug #19614: Storage cluster Datastore ResolvedTimo Goebel05/22/2017Actions
Actions #1

Updated by Dominic Cleal over 10 years ago

  • Related to Feature #3496: SCSI Controller type selection for vSphere added
Actions #2

Updated by Dominic Cleal about 10 years ago

  • Category changed from Compute resources to Compute resources - VMware

VMware I presume?

Actions #3

Updated by Chris Pisano about 10 years ago

Dominic Cleal wrote:

VMware I presume?

yup this would be for vmware.

Actions #4

Updated by Angelo Lisco over 8 years ago

It would be very very useful.
By the way, I think that this issue should be related to #1946

Actions #5

Updated by Anonymous over 8 years ago

  • Related to Feature #1946: Addition VMWare options required for VM creation added
Actions #6

Updated by Shlomi Zadok about 8 years ago

  • Status changed from New to Need more information
I believe this has been resolved? We currently have:
  • BusLogic Parallel
  • LSI Logic Parallel
  • LSI Logic SAS
  • VMware Paravirtual

I believe this covers the VMWare SCSI controllers

Actions #7

Updated by Chris Pisano about 8 years ago

Shlomi Zadok wrote:

I believe this has been resolved? We currently have:
  • BusLogic Parallel
  • LSI Logic Parallel
  • LSI Logic SAS
  • VMware Paravirtual

I believe this covers the VMWare SCSI controllers

Is there the capability of selecting a different SCSI controller per disk? I think right now there is only the option to select a single SCSI controller that is used for all disks.

Actions #8

Updated by Dominic Cleal about 8 years ago

  • Subject changed from Additional SCSI Controller to Additional SCSI Controller with per-disk configuration
  • Status changed from Need more information to New
Actions #9

Updated by Shlomi Zadok about 8 years ago

  • Status changed from New to Need more information
  • Assignee set to Shlomi Zadok

I am not so familiar with VMWare, but as far as I know only one scsi controller can be set per server (I may be wrong though).
Also please see this note https://github.com/fog/fog-vsphere/blob/7ab0298bd08a2444c089cb9ca520b73f24d05dfc/lib/fog/vsphere/models/compute/server.rb#L48 regarding that.
@Christian Holzheimer, would love more info on the matter. Thanks :)

Actions #10

Updated by Shlomi Zadok about 8 years ago

  • Target version set to 1.5.3
Actions #11

Updated by Marek Hulán about 8 years ago

  • Status changed from Need more information to New

According to https://pubs.vmware.com/vsphere-51/index.jsp?topic=%2Fcom.vmware.vsphere.vm_admin.doc%2FGUID-5872D173-A076-42FE-8D0B-9DB0EB0E7362.html it's possible. As said, fog-vsphere does not support it so the patch there would be required. A good start would probably be to report fog-vsphere issue.

Actions #12

Updated by Marek Hulán about 8 years ago

  • Target version changed from 1.5.3 to 1.5.0
Actions #13

Updated by Angelo Lisco about 8 years ago

Marek Hulán wrote:

According to https://pubs.vmware.com/vsphere-51/index.jsp?topic=%2Fcom.vmware.vsphere.vm_admin.doc%2FGUID-5872D173-A076-42FE-8D0B-9DB0EB0E7362.html it's possible. As said, fog-vsphere does not support it so the patch there would be required. A good start would probably be to report fog-vsphere issue.

It seems that in the last fog-vsphere release (1.3.0) there's a feature to add a scsi controller to a vm.
https://github.com/fog/fog-vsphere/pull/53

Actions #14

Updated by Timo Goebel about 8 years ago

Angelo Lisco wrote:

It seems that in the last fog-vsphere release (1.3.0) there's a feature to add a scsi controller to a vm.
https://github.com/fog/fog-vsphere/pull/53

Angelo, that is true. Thank you for the hint. However the added functionality won't help as it only allows you to add a scsi controller to an existing VM. What we need is code, that creates the vm with the desired scsi controllers.

Shlomi, I am very interested in seeing this feature happen. If you don't mind I'll take a look to patch fog-vsphere to support what we need and then help with reviewing the Foreman PR.

Actions #15

Updated by Timo Goebel about 8 years ago

Timo Goebel wrote:

If you don't mind I'll take a look to patch fog-vsphere to support what we need.

I opened a PR against fog-vsphere:

https://github.com/fog/fog-vsphere/pull/54

Actions #16

Updated by Marek Hulán about 8 years ago

  • Target version changed from 1.5.0 to 1.4.2
Actions #17

Updated by Marek Hulán about 8 years ago

The PR allowing more SCSI controllers was merged and released in fog-vsphere 1.4.0, thanks Timo!

Actions #18

Updated by The Foreman Bot about 8 years ago

  • Status changed from New to Ready For Testing
  • Pull request https://github.com/theforeman/foreman/pull/3979 added
Actions #19

Updated by Marek Hulán about 8 years ago

  • Target version changed from 1.4.2 to 1.4.4
Actions #20

Updated by Marek Hulán almost 8 years ago

  • Target version changed from 1.4.4 to 1.10.1
Actions #21

Updated by Shlomi Zadok almost 8 years ago

  • Target version changed from 1.10.1 to 115
Actions #22

Updated by Anonymous almost 8 years ago

  • Related to Bug #7803: Cannot provision vsphere vm with 8 or more disks added
Actions #23

Updated by The Foreman Bot over 7 years ago

  • Pull request https://github.com/theforeman/foreman/pull/4366 added
Actions #24

Updated by Marek Hulán over 7 years ago

  • Pull request deleted (https://github.com/theforeman/foreman/pull/4366)

Probably added by mistaken in commit message

Actions #25

Updated by The Foreman Bot over 7 years ago

  • Pull request https://github.com/theforeman/foreman/pull/4366 added
Actions #26

Updated by Timo Goebel over 7 years ago

  • Related to Feature #19325: Adding VMware vSphere SCSI Controller ID Selection to volumes added
Actions #27

Updated by The Foreman Bot over 7 years ago

  • Pull request https://github.com/theforeman/foreman/pull/4676 added
Actions #28

Updated by Marek Hulán over 7 years ago

  • Pull request deleted (https://github.com/theforeman/foreman/pull/4366, https://github.com/theforeman/foreman/pull/3979)
Actions #29

Updated by Marek Hulán over 7 years ago

  • Translation missing: en.field_release set to 240
Actions #30

Updated by Ohad Levy over 7 years ago

  • Status changed from Ready For Testing to Closed
  • % Done changed from 0 to 100
Actions #31

Updated by Anonymous about 7 years ago

  • Related to Bug #19614: Storage cluster Datastore added
Actions #32

Updated by Marek Hulán about 7 years ago

  • Bugzilla link set to 1419060
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