[Users] ovirt / 2 iscsi storage domains / same LUN IDs
Alex Leonhardt
alex.tuxx at gmail.com
Mon Mar 4 15:35:01 UTC 2013
Hi,
I just tested this with this config :
<target iqn.2013-02.local.vm:iscsi.lun1>
<backing-store /vol/scsi.img>
vendor_id ISCSI-MULTIPATH
scsi_id MULTIPATHTEST
scsi_sn 990000100001
lun 1
</backing-store>
</target>
However, upon discovery / login, the LUN ID was again :
1IET_0000100001
Alex
On 3 March 2013 18:34, Ayal Baron <abaron at redhat.com> wrote:
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> ----- Original Message -----
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > Hi there,
> >
> > I was doing some testing around ovirt and iscsi and found an issue
> > where as when you use "dd" to create "backing-stores" for iscsi and
> > you point ovirt to it to discover & login, it thinks the LUN ID is
> > the same although the target is different and adds additional paths
> > to the config (automagically?) bringing down the iSCSI storage
> > domain.
>
> There is no question about the behaviour, it's not a bug, that is the way
> multipathing works (has nothing to do with oVirt). The GUID of a LUN has
> to be unique. multipathd seeing the same LUN ID across multiple targets
> assumes that it's the same LUN with multiple paths and that's how you get
> redundancy and load balancing.
> Why tgtd doesn't take care of this built in I could never grok, but what
> you need to do is edit your targets.conf and add the scsi_id and scsi_sn
> fields.
>
> Example:
> <target MasterBackup>
> allow-in-use yes
> <backing-store /dev/vg0/MasterBackup>
> lun 1
> scsi_id MasterBackup
> scsi_sn 444444444401
> </backing-store>
> </target>
>
> >
> > See attached screenshot of what I got when trying to a "new iscsi san
> > storage domain" to ovirt. The Storage Domain is now down and I
> > cannot get rid of the config (???) how do I force it to logout of
> > the targets ??
> >
> >
> > Also, anyone know how to deal with the duplicate LUN ID issue ?
> >
> >
> > Thanks
> > Alex
> >
> >
> >
> >
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