[ovirt-users] iSCSI self hosted engine

Sandro Bonazzola sbonazzo at redhat.com
Wed Aug 27 12:52:20 UTC 2014


Il 27/08/2014 14:29, Markus Mathes ha scritto:
> Hi,
> 
> I thought about a self hosted engine setup using 2 hosts connected to
> a iSCSI storage.
> A few questions arose and I didn't succeed finding the answers on the
> web. I somehow don't get how the iSCSI integration in ovirt works.
> 
> - As far as I understand from the information I found, all iSCSI
> access for the virtual machines is done through one host. Does this
> mean, that all disk related traffic of the other host is going to the
> first host and then to the iSCSI storage? In this case. How are the
> virtual disk images then made available for the VMs on the other host?
> - If the first host fails, the engine will get started on the other
> host. Will the engine deal with the fact, that now the iSCSI storage
> domain has to be accessed using the other host. Or is iSCSI just not
> suitable for this kind of usage.
^^ can't answer to above questions


> - Has the self hosted engine to use a different iSCSI lun than the
> storage domain?
^^ yes, it requires its own storage domain

> 
> Thanks
> Markus
> 


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