From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from gate001.proxmox.com (gate001.proxmox.com [45.144.208.40]) by lore.proxmox.com (Postfix) with ESMTPS id DDEB41FF135 for ; Thu, 02 Jul 2026 13:09:04 +0200 (CEST) Received: from gate001.proxmox.com (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by gate001.proxmox.com (Proxmox) with ESMTP id E77A4213C8; Thu, 02 Jul 2026 13:09:03 +0200 (CEST) From: Aaron Lauterer To: pve-devel@lists.proxmox.com Subject: [PATCH docs 1/2] pvesm: mention FC/SAS in the storage overview. Date: Thu, 2 Jul 2026 13:08:55 +0200 Message-ID: <20260702110856.2205894-1-a.lauterer@proxmox.com> X-Mailer: git-send-email 2.47.3 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Bm-Milter-Handled: 55990f41-d878-4baa-be0a-ee34c49e34d2 X-Bm-Transport-Timestamp: 1782990530420 X-SPAM-LEVEL: Spam detection results: 0 DMARC_MISSING 0.1 Missing DMARC policy KAM_DMARC_STATUS 0.01 Test Rule for DKIM or SPF Failure with Strict Alignment (newer systems) SPF_HELO_NONE 0.001 SPF: HELO does not publish an SPF Record SPF_PASS -0.001 SPF: sender matches SPF record Message-ID-Hash: A7VZU4APOYXP4L23ZDVYSN7LQK42XKW5 X-Message-ID-Hash: A7VZU4APOYXP4L23ZDVYSN7LQK42XKW5 X-MailFrom: a.lauterer@proxmox.com X-Mailman-Rule-Misses: dmarc-mitigation; no-senders; approved; loop; banned-address; emergency; member-moderation; nonmember-moderation; administrivia; implicit-dest; max-recipients; max-size; news-moderation; no-subject; digests; suspicious-header X-Mailman-Version: 3.3.10 Precedence: list List-Id: Proxmox VE development discussion List-Help: List-Owner: List-Post: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: While not a dedicated storage plugin, it is possible to use FC and SAS attached block storage. Make it clear that it works and can be used with the snapshots as a volume chain feature as it needs LVM on top. Signed-off-by: Aaron Lauterer --- pvesm.adoc | 7 +++++++ 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+) diff --git a/pvesm.adoc b/pvesm.adoc index 97feca0..b43ca42 100644 --- a/pvesm.adoc +++ b/pvesm.adoc @@ -79,6 +79,7 @@ nodes that can be accessed as RBD (RADOS Block Device). |LVM-thin |lvmthin |block |no |yes |yes |iSCSI/kernel |iscsi |block |yes |no |yes |iSCSI/libiscsi |iscsidirect |block |yes |no |yes +|FC/SAS |native^6^ |block |yes |yes^4^ |yes |Ceph/RBD |rbd |block |yes |yes |yes |ZFS over iSCSI |zfs |block |yes |yes |yes |======================================================================== @@ -105,6 +106,12 @@ xref:pvesm_lvm_config[LVM configuration] section. ^5^ Technology preview with best-effort support. +^6^ Fibre Channel (FC) and SAS block storage is handled directly by the host +without a dedicated storage plugin. The +https://pve.proxmox.com/wiki/Multipath[Multipath Guide] explains how to set it +up in a cluster. + + Thin Provisioning ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ -- 2.47.3