Hi all. Again.
I am still fighting that "VMware esxi cannot use striped gluster volumes" thing, and a couple of crazy ideas are coming to mind.
One of them is using iSCSI WITH gluster, and esxi connecting via iSCSI.
My experience with iSCSI is limited to a couple of FreeNAS test installs, and some tuning on FreeNAS and esxi in order to implement multipathing, but nothing dead serious.
I remember that after creating a volume and formating it (zvol), THEN space was allocated to iSCSI. Makes some sense, since iSCIS is a block device, and after it is available, the operating system will actually use it. But it is a bit foggy.
I am trying to bypass the present limitation on Gluster, which refuses to talk to esxi using a striped volume.
So, here is the question: anyone here uses gluster and iSCSI ?
Would anyone care to comment on performance of this kind of solution, pros and cons ?
Thanks.
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