OT: Re: [Xen-users] Re: multiple iscsi targets on bonding interface

[Jeff Williams <jeffw@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 10/04/09 23:16, Ferenc Wagner wrote:
> Don't confuse the different layers.  Each of our PV domUs are backed
> by independent iSCSI targets, to make independent live migration of
> domUs possible.  Each domU sees its assigned target as virtual disk
> /dev/xvda, and has no idea whatsoever that it is an iSCSI target in
> reality.  Then each domU uses this virtual disk as it wants: some
> partition it, some use it as an LVM physical volume, some put a
> filesystem straight on it.  iSCSI is absolutely out of the picture
> here, with the exception of the iSCSI rooted domUs, which, on the
> other hand, have no disk devices assigned to them by Xen: they are
> (virtual) "diskless"; the Xen host doesn't know they mount iSCSI
> devices as their roots from initramfs.
>   
Ferenc,

Just out of interest, do have any problems managing all of those iSCSI 
targets across all of your Xen dom0s? I would imagine you'd end up with 
a very large number of /dev/sd* devices on all of the dom0s?
Regards,
Jeff


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