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Description of problem:

"Section 23 Virtualization storage topics" in the Virtualization Guide, & "Section 23 Virtual Storage" in the Storage Guide makes no mention of SRP being a supported storage type, even though the kernel modules and user space tools are included in RHEL 6, and it works well.

The ones mentioned at present are:

 * Fibre Channel
 * iSCSI
 * NFS
 * GFS2

This should be updated to include SRP (SCSI RDMA Protocol), the block export protocol used in Infiniband and 10GbE iWARP adapters.


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):

The Kernel modules are in the main RHEL 6 kernel package. i.e. kernel-2.6.32-19.el6 for the beta.

The user space tools are in the RHEL 6 srp-tools package.  srptools-0.0.4-7.el6 for the beta.

Also found a missing mention of it here in Chapter 1 of the Virtualization Guide too:

  http://www.redhat.com/docs/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/6-Beta/html/Virtualization/chap-Virtualization-System_requirements.html

The only ones mentioned there are:

 * files on local storage,
 * physical disk partitions,
 * locally connected physical LUNs,
 * LVM partitions,
 * iSCSI, and
 * Fibre Channel-based LUNs

It's probably worth adding mention of GNBD as a supported storage type too.

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thanks Justin. I am reassigning this to the Virtualization Guide's author for review.

GNBD? If that is officially supported I'll add that too.

Added SRP.

Chris

Fixed in build 15.