[Users] way to edit iSCSI storage domain?

[Alex Leonhardt]

but you can add a iscsi disk to a existing iscsi domain ... see attached
screenshot .. .if the disk you're adding has the same LUN ID as the already
existing one, ovirt will just "add it" as a 2nd / 3rd / 4th and so forth
path ...




On 3 April 2013 10:49, Yuriy Demchenko <demchenko.ya at gmail.com> wrote:

>  You mean add new path by hands on each node via iscsiadm ? And how that
> changes survive possible node reboots / reinstalls, as i suppose - it
> wouldn't?
> In ovirt webadmin i cannot edit added domain - connection information is
> greyed out (even when storage domain in maintenance mode)
>
> Yuriy Demchenko
>
> On 04/03/2013 01:00 PM, Alex Leonhardt wrote:
>
>  I think i'd just add the 2nd path when the device is available ... i've
> recently exprimented with iscsi / tgtd and multipath on a ovirt hyper-visor
> and it will identify the disk as "the same" (new path to target) as long as
> the LUN ID is the same (this is taken from experience, not from a spec
> document) ...
>
>
> On 3 April 2013 08:14, Yuriy Demchenko <demchenko.ya at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> I guess you misunderstood me
>> I'm going to try this scheme:
>>                |STORAGE|
>> FC             /           \
>>     |SERV1/tgtd|    |SERV2/tgtd|
>> iSCSI       \              /
>>          |ethernet switches|
>> iSCSI            ||||||||
>>        |blades|blades|blades|
>>
>> serv1/serv2 - connectivity isnt a problem, multipathed FC scheme, all
>> good. Same lun accessible for both servers and than exported via tgtd to
>> iSCSI: with different target names ("iqn.2013-03.serv1:store",
>> "iqn.2013-03.serv2:store"), but same vendor_id, product_id, scsi_sn,
>> scsi_id. That way client can login into both targets and see lun as
>> multipathed device.
>> And multipath failover scheme (via custom config with
>> path_grouping_policy=failover for corresponding vendor_id/product_id) is on
>> blades-clients - so they use only one target at time (no round-robin or
>> similar stuff), but with ability to switch to another target in case one of
>> serv1/serv2 is down.
>>
>> However, in my case "serv2" would not be available during oVirt setup
>> (need to setup ovirt and virtual servers to move stuff first), so i cant
>> enter both targets on storage domain initialization - that's why I'm asking
>> if there's any way to edit storage domain details after initialization
>> without destroying it (maybe directly via sql or something).
>>
>> Yuriy Demchenko
>>
>>
>> On 04/02/2013 06:26 PM, Shu Ming wrote:
>>
>>> I am not sure if the multipathd can recognize the FC path to the storage
>>> when the second server is available and regards it as the same as the iSCSI
>>> path used before. If it is not, I think the device under /dev/mapper may
>>> change when you cut the iSCSI path off and then enable FC path. That will
>>> definitely corrupt the meta data of the volume group which the storage
>>> domain is sitting on and the storage domain will be corrupted finally.
>>>
>>
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