On 5/12/2014 4:52 AM, Andrei Mikhailovsky wrote: > Leen, > > thanks for explaining things. I does make sense now. > > Unfortunately, it does look like this technology would not fulfill my > requirements as I do need to have an ability to perform maintenance > without shutting down vms. I've no idea how much state you need to share for iscsi failover; with nfs you put the "cluster" ip address, the lock directories & the daemons on a heartbeat'ed pair of machines. With automount you don't need multiple active servers, you can do (much simpler) active-passive. Dima