<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Apr 3, 2017 at 4:50 AM, Devin A. Bougie <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:devin.bougie@cornell.edu" target="_blank">devin.bougie@cornell.edu</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">Thanks for following up, Gianluca. At this point, my main question is why should I configure iSCSI Bonds within the oVirt engine instead of or in addition to configuring iSCSI initiators and multipathd directly in the host's OS.<br>
<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Mainly because it is intention of the projct to let the oVirt admin able to setup the environment also without strong Linux sysadmin competencies</div><div><br></div><div>In my case I pre-configured only the multipath part from the OS, as I needed a custom multipath config for Dell PS storage arrays. See here:</div><div><a href="http://lists.ovirt.org/pipermail/users/2017-March/080898.html" target="_blank">http://lists.ovirt.org/<wbr>pipermail/users/2017-March/<wbr>080898.html</a><br></div><div><br></div><div>The key is the line with</div><div># VDSM PRIVATE<br></div><div><br></div><div>to be put under the line generated by oirt: </div><div># VDSM REVISION 1.3<br></div><div><br></div><div>From the iSCSI configuration point of view I only configured /etc/iscsi/iscsid.conf as suggested by Dell, and this file seems not to be touched by oVirt.</div><div><br></div><div>Also see here for my configuration steps and screenshots for iSCSI-Multipath (not bonding) from within oVirt webadmin Gui, that should give you the same configuration you usually get manually as you stated: </div><div><a href="http://lists.ovirt.org/pipermail/users/2017-March/080992.html" target="_blank">http://lists.ovirt.org/<wbr>pipermail/users/2017-March/<wbr>080992.html</a></div><div><br></div><div>The doc parts should be these:<br></div><div><a href="http://www.ovirt.org/documentation/admin-guide/chap-Storage/#configuring-iscsi-multipathing" target="_blank" style="font-size:12.8px">http://www.ovirt.org/<wbr>documentation/admin-guide/<wbr>chap-Storage/#configuring-<wbr><span class="gmail-il">iscsi</span>-<span class="gmail-il">multipathing</span></a><br></div><div><a href="http://www.ovirt.org/develop/release-management/features/storage/iscsi-multipath/" target="_blank">http://www.ovirt.org/develop/<wbr>release-management/features/<wbr>storage/iscsi-multipath/</a></div><div> </div><div>And here for official RHEV 4.0 docs:</div><div><a href="https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-us/red_hat_virtualization/4.0/html/administration_guide/sect-preparing_and_adding_block_storage">https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-us/red_hat_virtualization/4.0/html/administration_guide/sect-preparing_and_adding_block_storage</a><br></div><div><br></div><div>HIH,</div><div>Gianluca</div><div><br></div></div></div></div>