<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=us-ascii"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div class="">If one was to attach a shared iSCSI LUN as 'storage' to an oVirt data centre that contains existing data - how does oVirt behave?</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">For example the LUN might be partitioned as LVM, then contain existing filesystems etc...</div><div class=""> </div><div class="">- Would oVirt see that there is existing data on the LUN and simply attach it as any other linux initiator (client) world, or would it try to wipe the LUN clean and reinitialise it?</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Context: Investigating migration from XenServer to oVirt (4.2.0)</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">All our iSCSI storage is currently attached to XenServer hosts, XenServer formats those raw LUNs with LVM and VMs are stored within them.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><i class="">If the answer to this is already out there and I should have found it by searching, I apologise, please point me to the link and I'll RTFM.</i></div><div class=""><div class="">
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