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<p class="MsoNormal">Hi Ovirt dev-Community,<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">We have a host running RHEL 6.2 + KVM , and created 2 Virtual machines on the host which are running RHEL6.2.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">We are trying to configure shared storage for 2 VMs. This shared storage on VMs should understand the SCSI requests. The reason for this requirement is that we would be using SCSI-3 PR (persistent reservation ) utils, which is sg3_utils
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<p class="MsoNormal">We believe that exposing the raw LUNs from host to VMs as shared storage (which is same as RDM - Raw Device Mapping in VMware ESX environment ) would meet our above stated requirement.
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<p class="MsoNormal">So can you please help us understand the following <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">1/ How to expose the Raw LUNs , from host ( RHEL 6.2 + KVM ) to Virtual machines which are running RHEK 6.2.
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<p class="MsoNormal">2/ Also , if there is any alternate way to achieve the above requirement in RHEL + KVM environment, apart from the mechanism we stated , please let us know.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Thanks & Regards,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">-Amol<o:p></o:p></p>
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