Just out of interest, have you tried this with the Dell hitkit? On Fri, Oct 25, 2013 at 1:46 PM, Joop <jvdwege(a)xs4all.nl&gt; wrote:

Thanks, That definitely makes sense. I hope your modifications will be integrated into vdsm, this is something I've been waiting for as well. -- Dan On Fri, Oct 25, 2013 at 3:25 PM, Martin Goldstone <m.j.goldstone(a)keele.ac.uk > Hi Dan, > > I'm a colleague of Gary's, we've been working on this project together. > > We've not had it working with the Dell HIT thus far. The python scripts in > VDSM that handle the iSCSI connections use iscsiadm to discover and login > to sessions so more extensive modifications would be needed to use ehcmcli > instead, and oVirt uses the normal device mapper devices under /dev/mapper, > whereas the HIT puts devices under /dev/eql and handles multipathing in > it's own way it seems. We've not tried extending it to work with the HIT > tools and devices partly because we wanted to keep the iSCSI side of things > here as close to standard as possible, and not have to treat the EqualLogic > stuff as too much of a special case. > > Thanks, > Martin > > > On 25 October 2013 21:15, Dan Yasny <dyasny(a)gmail.com> >> Just out of interest, have you tried this with the Dell hitkit? >> >> >> On Fri, Oct 25, 2013 at 1:46 PM, Joop <jvdwege(a)xs4all.nl>> >>> Hello Gary, >>> >>>> Hello >>>> >>>> I just thought I'd send a quick message to say Hi and to see if anyone >>>> on here is using Ovirt with Dell EqualLogic as the back-end storage. >>>> If anyone is having difficulty getting up and running this may be >>>> helpful: >>>> >>>> https://sites.google.com/a/**keele.ac.uk/partlycloudy/**ovirt/** >>>> gettingovirttoworkwithdellequa**llogic<https://sites.google.com/a/keel... >>>> >>>> >>>> >>> >>> Well, I'm, or better, we'are :-) >>> Will have a look at your link and let you know if I can get it working. >>> >>> Thanks, >>> >>> Joop >>> >>> ______________________________**_________________ >>> Users mailing list >>> Users(a)ovirt.org >>> http://lists.ovirt.org/**mailman/listinfo/users<http://lists.ovirt.org... >>> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Users mailing list >> Users(a)ovirt.org >> http://lists.ovirt.org/mailman/listinfo/users >> >> > > > -- > Martin Goldstone > IT Systems Administrator - Finance & IT > Keele University, Keele, Staffordshire, United Kingdom, ST5 5BG > Telephone: +44 1782 734457 > G+: http://gplus.to/mjgkeele >