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Karl,  this is a public requirement. not dell specific.   thinking about RHCS support scsi_fence mechanism which depending on storage vender supporting scsi reservation standards. now nvme-F is more and more popular and dell storage already support nvme reservation standard too. so we ask if rhel has a plan support to support nvme_fence  agent.

The nvme replacement for sg3_utils with is the nvme-cli utility.  This utility is fully supported by RHEL.

 [root@rhel-storage-105 ~]# rpm -qi nvme-cli
 Name        : nvme-cli
 Version     : 2.4
 Release     : 1.el9
 Architecture: x86_64
 Install Date: Tue 18 Apr 2023 05:40:34 PM EDT
 Group       : Unspecified
 Size        : 4982802
 License     : GPLv2+
 Signature   : RSA/SHA256, Wed 12 Apr 2023 03:55:03 AM EDT, Key ID 199e2f91fd431d51
 Source RPM  : nvme-cli-2.4-1.el9.src.rpm
 Build Date  : Thu 06 Apr 2023 06:25:43 AM EDT
 Build Host  : x86-64-06.build.eng.rdu2.redhat.com
 Packager    : Red Hat, Inc. <http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla>
 Vendor      : Red Hat, Inc.
 URL         : https://github.com/linux-nvme/nvme-cli
 Summary     : NVMe management command line interface
 Description :
 nvme-cli provides NVM-Express user space tooling for Linux.

So, instead of using the `sg_persist` command you would use the `nvme` command to manage reservations on the nvme device.

  resv-acquire                 Submit a Reservation Acquire, return results
  resv-register                Submit a Reservation Register, return results
  resv-release                 Submit a Reservation Release, return results
  resv-report                  Submit a Reservation Report, return results

This means:

 sg_persist --out --register --param-rk=123456 /dev/sdb

becomes:

 nvme resv-register /dev/nvme1n1 --rrega=0 --nrkey=123456 --iekey

Example:

[root@rhel-storage-105 ~]# nvme resv-register /dev/nvme1n1 --rrega=0 --nrkey=123456 --iekey
NVME Reservation  success
[root@rhel-storage-105 ~]# nvme resv-report /dev/nvme1n1

NVME Reservation status:

gen       : 1
rtype     : 0
regctl    : 1
ptpls     : 1
regctl[0] :
  cntlid  : 1
  rcsts   : 0
  hostid  : 0
  rkey    : 1e240

yes, the nvme-cli utility is supported by RHEL.  RHCS supply scsi_fence agent for cluster fencing. it only serve for scsi3 reservation.  there don't have a agent used for nvme reservation. there need a similar agent for nvme reservation

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