[Users] question on storage and host

[Itamar Heim]

On 04/18/2012 06:54 PM, Dominic Kaiser wrote:
> It adds an iscsi target on install. Or am I wrong what is this:

no, unless we are not talking about the same thing.


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> On Wed, Apr 18, 2012 at 11:15 AM, Itamar Heim <iheim at redhat.com
> <mailto:iheim at redhat.com>> wrote:
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>     On 04/18/2012 05:52 PM, Dominic Kaiser wrote:
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>         I for some reason cannot add the ovrit node as iscsi storage.
>           My server
>         sits at 10.3.0.243 and you use port 3260 right?  I have added it
>         as a
>         host fine but can not get it to detect iscsi storage.
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>     is this an ovirt-node or regular fedora (i'm not even sure
>     ovirt-node has the rpm's to behave as an iscsi target)?
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>         I get:
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>           No new devices were found. This may be due to either: incorrect
>         multipath configuration on the Host or wrong address of the
>         iscsi target
>         or a failure to authenticate on the target device. Please
>         consult your
>         Storage Administrator.
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>         Like it is not there or blocked.  On ovirt node it initializes iscsi
>         automatically right?
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>         Thanks,
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>         Dominic
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>         On Wed, Apr 18, 2012 at 10:33 AM, Itamar Heim <iheim at redhat.com
>         <mailto:iheim at redhat.com>
>         <mailto:iheim at redhat.com <mailto:iheim at redhat.com>>> wrote:
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>             On 04/18/2012 05:28 PM, Dominic Kaiser wrote:
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>                 What I am asking is on one of my nodes I have installed
>         ovirt
>                 node it
>                 has a designated iscsi target on install.  Can I use
>         that as a
>                 separate
>                 iscsi storage node?
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>             please cc lists on questions.
>             you can use it as a storage node as well for shared storage.
>             local storage is only via local file system
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>                 dk
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>                 On Sun, Apr 15, 2012 at 3:03 AM, Itamar Heim
>         <iheim at redhat.com <mailto:iheim at redhat.com>
>         <mailto:iheim at redhat.com <mailto:iheim at redhat.com>>
>         <mailto:iheim at redhat.com <mailto:iheim at redhat.com>
>         <mailto:iheim at redhat.com <mailto:iheim at redhat.com>>>> wrote:
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>                     On 04/13/2012 09:37 PM, Dominic Kaiser wrote:
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>                         I have a server I want to use that has 8 storage
>         bays
>                 and is an
>                         8 core
>                         intel xeon 16 gigs of ram.  I want to use the
>         board and
>                         processors for
>                         virtual machines and storage separately.  First
>         can I do
>                 this?
>                           Second I
>                         am using ovirt node and it has remote storage
>         iSCSI address
>                         assignment
>                         can I do it that way?  My main reason is I want
>         to use
>                         processors and
>                         storage.
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>                     not sure i understood the question/use case:
>                     you can run virtual machines on the host from a
>         remote shared
>                     storage (nfs, iscsi, etc.) and use the local disks for
>                 anything else.
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>                     if i didn't answer, please clarify the use case.
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