[Users] Dell EqualLogic and Ovirt

[Dan Yasny]

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 at keele.ac.uk
> wrote:

> 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 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Just out of interest, have you tried this with the Dell hitkit?
>>
>>
>> On Fri, Oct 25, 2013 at 1:46 PM, Joop <jvdwege at xs4all.nl> wrote:
>>
>>> 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/keele.ac.uk/partlycloudy/ovirt/gettingovirttoworkwithdellequallogic>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>> 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
>>>
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