Re: openfiler (was: using CentOS as an iSCSI server?)

[Karanbir Singh <mail-lists@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 10/21/2009 03:55 AM, Les Mikesell wrote:
>> I have this running in production. only not with 2 machines, but with 4
>> machines, doing raid-10 ( not mdraid10, but conventional 2 sets of
>> raid-1's 0'd )
>
> I thought the original object was to make the space available to
> multiple VMware ESX(i) servers so you could vmotion guests among them.
> Can ESX construct raids out of multiple iscsi sources?

I have no idea :) my setup has no vmware or any other form of 
virtualisation in place there. the iscsi blockdev's are exported from 4 
different machines ( each running with an areca-1220 with 8 disks ), 
imported into a single machine - the storage-head, where mdraid does my 
raid10 across those iscsi devices. this new volume is then exported over 
a series of nfs points to various machines on the same subnet.

my point was just that this kind of a distributed setup is possible and 
works well, as long as you can document and monitor the various points well.

-- 
Karanbir Singh : http://www.karan.org/  : 2522219@icq
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