NPIV and XEN under CentOS 5 does not work

boo.

(double boo for not posting anything in nearly 6 months)

From what I can tell, Xen 3.0.3 (shipped with CentOS / RHEL 5) does NOT support NPIV for SAN attached storage. Looks like it works just fine with CentOS 6 though. The frustrating thing is that all the pieces are there for it to work… /sys/class/scsi_host/host?/vport_create and _destroy work as they should, you can zone storage to the new vports… you just can’t present the lun form:

npiv:----

to the guest.

boo. SysOps will upgrade the xen stuff next year at some point.